ಸ್ವಾತಂತ್ರ್ಯದ ಓಟ

Chand Ali works as a blacksmith for a Sikh family in Lahore. When India and Pakistan are divided, he tries to take the sisters Mohinder Kaur and Tanveer Kaur to the refugee border, but the vehicle they board goes to Delhi. On the sisters' advice he becomes Chandar, and they leave their gold jewellery with him. Chased by police at a railway station, he falls in with a holy man known as Jolige Baba, Badruddin, son of Roshan Ali of the village of Muttuppadi, and hopes to ask Gandhi for help in going back to Lahore, only to arrive as Gandhi is shot. He follows Badruddin south to Muttuppadi, where he settles, still keeping the sisters' jewellery for decades.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

1086 pages in the original

Genres

Historical, Politics (assigned by AI)

Set in

Pakistan, India, from 1947

First published

2012 by Muttuppadi Pustaka

Author's age

61 when first published