The Train Has Reached Amritsar

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{{Short description|Short story by Bhisham Sahni}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2018}}
{{Use Indian English|date=March 2018}}

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'''The Train Has Reached Amritsar''' ([[Hindi]] original: ''Amritsar Aa Gaya Hai'') is a short story by [[Hindi]] author and playwright, [[Bhisham Sahni]],<ref name=French>{{cite book|last=French|first=Patrick|title=Liberty or death: India's journey to independence and division|year=1997|publisher=Harper Collins|isbn=978-0-00-655045-7|edition=illustrated|page=[https://archive.org/details/libertyordeath00fren/page/351 351]|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/libertyordeath00fren/page/351}}</ref> set during the [[Partition of India]].<ref name=Kamra>{{cite book|last=Kamra|first=Sukeshi|title=Bearing witness: partition, independence, end of the Raj|year=2002|publisher=University of Calgary Press|isbn=978-1-55238-041-3|page=183}}</ref> In the story a group of refugees are travelling from what has now become Pakistan towards [[Amritsar]], the first border town in India, and the horrors and destruction they witness on the journey.<ref>{{cite book |title=Literary polyrhythms: new voices in new writings in English|author=S. Robert Gnanamony|publisher=Sarup & Sons|year=2005|isbn=81-7625-595-5 |page=64 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f45aKfnTCJIC&q=The+Train+Has+Reached+Amritsar&pg=PA64 }}</ref> Sahni also wrote his epic novel ''[[Artistic depictions of the partition of India#Tamas|Tamas]]'' (Darkness, 1974) around partition, which was later adapted to a television film, by [[Govind Nihalani]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Obituary: A life of commitment: Bhisham Sahni, 1915 - 2003.|url=http://www.flonnet.com/fl2015/stories/20030801003612900.htm |publisher=[[Frontline (magazine)|Frontline]] |volume=20 |issue= 15 |date=19 July 2003 }}</ref>

An English translation by Alok Bhalla, was also part of the anthology, ''Stories of Partition of India'' (1994).<ref>{{cite book |title=Literature & nation: Britain and India, 1800-1990|author=Harish Trivedi |author2=Richard Allen |publisher=Routledge |year=2000|isbn=0-415-21207-3 |page=336 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V9ufrUyISBsC&q=The+Train+Has+Reached+Amritsar&pg=PA336 }}</ref>

==Adaptations==
It was adapted into a Hindi stage play by theatre director, Vinod Kumar in 2011.<ref name=toi>{{cite news |title=Theatre lovers look forward to one-act fest|url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-04-21/patna/29459098_1_theatre-lovers-nsd-cultural-ideas |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130103082224/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-04-21/patna/29459098_1_theatre-lovers-nsd-cultural-ideas |url-status=dead |archive-date=3 January 2013 |work=[[The Times of India]] |date=21 April 2011 }}</ref>

==Translation==
* ''We Have Arrived in Amritsar and Other Stories'', Tr. by Ashok Bhalla. Stosius Inc/Advent Books Division. {{ISBN|0-86131-998-2}}.

==See also==
* [[Artistic depictions of the partition of India]]

== References ==
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==External links==
* [https://www.jstor.org/pss/4230516 The Train Has Reached Amritsar, Excerpts]

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[[Category:Indian short stories]]
[[Category:Short stories about the partition of India]]
[[Category:Hindi-language literature]]
[[Category:Transport in Amritsar]]
[[Category:Short stories set in British India]]
[[Category:Short stories set in Pakistan]]
[[Category:Punjab Province in fiction]]

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