Article 2
I came across Intizar’s Husain’s Basti in my third and final year of graduation in English Literature. It was one of the novels which was a part of the subject called Partition Literature. However, upon reading it, I found out that it does not allude to one specific event or confines to any specific time. It is neither about the tragic 1947 India-Pakistan Partition nor the 1971 Indo-Pakistan war. As the title suggests, Basti means …