India Pakistan border as seen from outer space

The partition took many lives in its wake. Soldiers who were earlier fighting the British for freedom had suddenly found enemies in each other. It wasn’t merely, the land which got separated by the ramifications of Radcliffe line but relations.

Written by Manto, the literary genius from India’s pre-independence era, this allegory which is satirical at times questions the futility of war and the bedlam. It portrays the consequences of communal politics and the perplexed case of forgotten identities. The plot revolves around a stray dog trapped between two frontier posts of the Indian and Pakistani armies.