Khushwant Singh’s Narrative Techniques in Train to Pakistan, I Shall Not Hear the Nightingale and Delhi

Abstract

Khushwant Singh is a remarkable personality both as a man and as writer of prose and fiction for he has written what he feels and believes to be right whether those who read him like it or not. He has the narrative art of his own that is one of the distinguishing features of his art as a writer of fiction. He is stalwart neither as a novelist nor as a short story writer, but he has produced fiction which is, though meagre in output, is always readable. A study of Khushwant Singh’s novels made his readers realize that he was a born storyteller who had been late in picking up his pen as a novelist. Thus, this paper would analyze and assess the narrative art of Khushwant Singh as evidenced by his three novels, Train To Pakistan, I Shall Not Hear The Nightingale and Delhi.