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THE BITTER REALITY OF ‘TAMAS’: COMMUNAL HATRED

Dr Maninder Jeet Kaur

Volume: 5 Issue: 4 2015

Abstract:

Bhisham Sahni’s ‘Tamas’ is a link in the tradition of novels based on communal problems. Bhsahm Shani has given an intimate account of the naked dance of brutality that tookplace in the country just before independence, using communalism as a crutch. In terms of time span, this novel is a story of only five days. In this novel, the author has depicted every aspect of communalism. The timeperiod of the story is five days and the events take place in Amritsar and its surrounding villages. The work is a reliable expose of this communal poison. The problem of communalism in India is age-old, and the country has yet to be liberated from its domestic claws. Before independence, foreign rulers used this problem as a tool to strengthen the foothold here, and after independence, some political parties in our country are expoitiing it in a despicable manner. The victims of this devastation have been those innocent and poor people who are neither Hindu nor Muslim, but human beings and Indian citizens.

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