The unexpected journey of life

Hello friends, in my previous post I shared the first chapter of my novel “The Cry of Freedom”. Hope you liked the same. In the course of writing the novel or story, I got the opportunity to learn the various aspects of life. We cannot imagine that how we can be the victim of misfortune and miseries of life. Life is like a book and we don’t know what is written there in every pages or chapters of the book. Every day it brings the new episodes and it allows us to play different characters of the life. For example, every day we play the role of brother, sister, father, son, mother, friend, doctors, engineers, social worker, and so on. Thus, life moves forward.

Likewise, in my novel there is a character called Karim Khan, a boy from Lahore, Pakistan. He lives a very uncertain life. In his childhood he was unaware about his future. His family is a victim of partition of India. He also migrates from Pakistan to India in order to explore best of his life along with his father. But life offers him another entity. During the course of partition he lost his everything and thus, he finally became the ‘Mafia King Karim Khan’.

From the below paragraph you can read his journey of crime world how a juvenile turns into a Mafia King.

DISCLAIMER

This is a complete work of a fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance with actual persons, living or dead, community, business, company, or locals are entirely coincidental.

Karim Khan was born in Lahore, Pakistan. His father Abdul Rehman Mansuri was a blacksmith and during the freedom movement he developed the art of making weapons with the help of easily available local materials. Abdul Rehman Mansuri was a true patriotic person and for him nation was always first. He was highly influenced by the philosophy of Subash Chandra Bose, the founder of INA (Indian National Army). He was never fascinated with Mahatma Gandhi and his movement. Because Satyagraha was not his cup of tea as fearless blood of Pathan was in his vein. He believed that by adopting the method of violence only India can get freedom from the British rule. Due to the family responsibility he did not joined INA (Indian National Army). He was supposed to look after his child and an old aged father. But indirectly he decided to join the movement by manufacturing arms in favor of extremist groups.

During the course of time India got the reward of independence mid night at 12 midnight 15th August 1947. Lord Mountbatten appointed Pundit Jawaharlal Nehru as the first Prime Minister of Republic of India. Every single Indians celebrated the joy of independence in their own style. In urban as well a rural area people distributed sweets and some expressed their joy by putting colors in each other’s face. But in Pakistan the joy of freedom turned into another way. British Government played their role and divided country into two parts i.e. India and Pakistan.

In the history of India it was the most catastrophic event. A line was drawn between the people of the same country. Many people travelled from India to Pakistan considering Pakistan as their new motherland and many people travelled from Pakistan to India. Abdul Rehman Mansuri was one of them, for him India was his true motherland. Large numbers of people died in course of partition. The poison of religion was in the air. Population was openly divided into the two sects Hindus and Muslims. The partition not only killed the innocent Indians and Pakistanis but ultimately it killed humanity and brother-hood of Indian civilization.

Thousands and lakhs of people were migrated from Pakistan in order to switch their new motherland. Travelling through railway was highly risky due to the patrolling of extremist group all around the railway stations. Though travelling through roadway was quite safer but it was full of miseries and sorrows. Large number of the population travelled on foot bullock carts, camels, horses and other means of local transportation.

Somehow Abdul Rehman Mansuri and his son Karim managed to escape from Pakistan by alternate route of roadway. He was quite lucky that he had a horse with him. It helped them to escape from Lahore with some extra acceleration. It took a week to reach Delhi from Lahore by a roadway. Their horse was about to die due to lack of food and water. Abdul Rehman was not feeling well, while escaping he forgot to carry his box of medicines.

Delhi immigration camp time 2:30 p.m. afternoon, the scorching rays of sun are not in mood of sparing any one. Literally it was killing everyone with its heat. After sometime their brave horse died because of dehydration and excessive heat. Abdul Rehman witnessed the tragic death of his horse with his teary eyes. He thanked Almighty for ending his sorrows.

Abdul Rehman asked his son to get some fresh water to drink and he said; it seems I am not going to survive. I failed you my son. Karim replied please father don’t speak like this. We escaped and we are here at our motherland. You did great and at the end of the day we are together. Karim paused for a second and said stay here I will bring some food and water to drink.

As the day progresses the atmosphere of Delhi immigration camp became more horrible and horrible. Shortage of safe drinking water, nutritious food, and immediate medical emergency leads number of deaths. Unfortunately Abdul’s health begins deteriorating due to severe headache and vomiting. Gradually he started losing his breath. Slowly… slowly by the end of the day he lost his life.

Karim returned with a plate of food and a small jar of water. It was hard to believe for him to see as his father is no more and at the same moment he lost everything, no home, and no parents nothing except the cry of freedom.

Karim offered a last prayer to the almighty and for the very last time he said, “Goodbye” to his father. Immigration officials came and took charge of the body; they made the official record and asked Karim to sign the necessary papers. From Delhi railway station he boarded train to unknown destination. Unknowingly, he reached to Azamgarh and little Karim started his journey and finally he became the mafia king Karim Khan

In order to learn the entire journey of Karim Khan you can buy the novel from the given below link. Its exclusively available on leading e-commerce platform amazon. It is available in digital format (Kindle) & paperback.
https://www.amazon.com/Cry-Freedom-Anup-R-Gupta/dp/1549887394

Regards

Anup R. Gupta

Best of luck & enjoy reading.