released in 1998. It was directed by Pamela Rooks and this movie was nominated in Cinequest Film Festival, 1999 in the best feature film category. Nirmal pandey, Mohan Agashe, Rajit Kapoor, Smriti Mishra, Divya Dutta, Mangal Dhillon were the main cast of this movie. Plays A play based on this novel and having the same title "Train to Pakistan", however the first chapter "Dacoity" was staged at Lamakaan - an open cultural space in Hyderabad, India. The play was staged by a theatre group called Aami. The play was adapted and directed by Krishna Shukla. This play was staged three times, the latest being on 26 August 2014. A Hindi play translated by Usha Mahajan, dramatized by Suman Kumar and directed by Amar Sah (Amar Nath Sah) was staged by Bela Theatre Karwaan on December 29, 2019 at Kamani Auditorium (Mandi House, Delhi), January 10, 2020 and last production on January 23, 2020. It received standing ovation on each show. 2006 edition Roli Books in New Delhi published a new edition of the novel together with 66 of Margaret Bourke-White's photographs of the violence. In late 2006, Roli was hoping to find an international distributor for the edition at the Frankfurt Book Fair (in October, 2006). Train to Pakistan has also translated into the Kannada(ಕನ್ನಡ) and Tamil languages as same titled by Dr.M B Ramamurthy and Raman Raja respectively. In 1976, it was translated into Telugu (తెలుగు) by Late Akundi Narayana Murthy. Prior to bringing into book form, it was serialized in the then popular Telugu Magazine Krishna Patrika. Notes Sources Sengupta, Somini, "Bearing Steady Witness To Partition's Wounds," an article in the Arts section, The New York Times, September 21, 2006, pages E1, E7 Lance Truong, "Character Development" An excerpt from A writing assignment, St. Paul College, September 16, 2006 External links Khushwant Singh talking about the writing of 'Train to Pakistan' 20th-century Indian novels 1956 novels Historical novels Indian historical novels in English Indian novels adapted into plays Partition of India in fiction Indian novels adapted into films Chatto & Windus books Novels by Khushwant Singh 1956 Indian novels Sikhism in fiction