"Kitne Pakistan" Hindi novel by Kamleshwar

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"Kitne Pakistan" Hindi novel by Kamleshwar

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Kitne Pakistan ka saar aur mere kuchh vichaar

Ek adaalat bulai jaaye aur usme ithaas, waqt, yaad aur parchhaiyon ko gawaah banaya jaaye, aur dhoondha jaaye us gunahgaar ko. Who gunahgaar jinke vehshiyaana karmo ne maanavta ka sar kaata hi nahin jhukaaya bhi hai. Sadiyo ke paar dekh ke humein us sach ki talaash to karni hi hogi jiski wajah se ek desh doosre desh ke arbo-karodo insaano ki jaan le leta haui, gulaam bana leta hai, nesto naaboot kar deta hai aur kodh ki tarah laakho jakhm peeche chhod jaata hai. Us ek sach ki talaash to karni hi hogi aur khangaalna hoga poora itihaas. Is sach ki talaash main hume kuchh prem kahaniyaan bhi milengi jo registaan main nakhlistaan sa ehsaas karati hain. Kuchh Boota Singh aur Jenib, koi Salma, koi Vidya, koi Pramthyu aur koi Gilgamesh bhi milenge to sookhi dharti main bearish ki pehli boonda ka sa ehsaas karate hain. Lekin registaan to andhiyo aur jhanjhawaato se joojhta hi rehta hai aur koi nakhlistaan bhi unse achhoota nahin.
Mountbatten, Truman, Montezmo, Churchill, Baabar, Aurangjeb, Dara Shikoh, Akbar in sabhi ko bula kar poochhna hoga. Bulaana to narmada, jamuna, saryu, aur Indus jaisy nadiyo ko bhi hoga, aur shayad chandni chowk, Lahore, Serbia, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Somalia ko bhi hoga jo gawaah hain har us pal ke jisne inki yaado ko chhalni kar chhoda hai. Aur agar yeh bhi kaafi na pade to poochhna hoga un sab devtaao se, indra, zeus, brahma, chandrama aur surya, Latin aur Greek devo ko bhi haazir hona hoga… aur Maryada Purshottam Ram Chandra ko bhi batana hoga ki ki shudra shambook ki hatya kyun ki unhone. Irshya, laalach, krodh aur mrigtrishna se andhe hue har shakhs ko jawaabdeh hona hoga. Har paap ka har batwaare ka byora dena hoga, batana padega ki kyun insaan insaan se ladta hai, alag ho jaata aur yeh vibhajan kab tak aur chalega, aur kitne pakistaan aur banenge.

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"Kamleshwar (कमलेश्वर; 6 January 1932 – 27 January 2007) was a prominent 20th-century Hindi writer, and script and dialogue writer for Hindi cinema and television. Among his most well-known work are the films Aandhi, Mausam, Chhoti Si Baat and Rang Birangi.

He was awarded the 2003 Sahitya Akademi Award, for his novel based on the Partition of India in 1947, 'Kitne Pakistan' (How Many Pakistans), which explored the way, nations fracture, through an allegorical court trial, wherein historical and political figures are present as witnesses[12], and the Padma Bhushan in 2005."
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