WINGS

 The author tells a story about an old woman who is unable to understand the intricacies of Partition. She doesn’t want to leave her house for newly formed Pakistan. She loves her roots and doesn’t want to get cutoff from her roots. She is not ready to leave her land, country and her neighbors and likens this leaving to death. “Time passed on, but Amma stayed steadfast in her position like a banyan tree that stands upright through storms and blizzards.” These lines tells us how deeply and stubbornly amma wanted to be there. She's also worried that how the new soil would be which she depicts as “Who knows whether the new soil will be conducive to these saplings or make them wilt. These poor saplings.”  Ammas love and care and her life devoted to us is endless as we can see in these lines " ten images of flesh and blood - ten human beings were born in that hallowed room from that sacred womb". We can see how beautifully a women's womb is personified here. "She had ...

 ROOTS- LITERARY APPRECIATION Ismat Chugtai is an Urdu writer who portraited the lives of many poor innocent loving people who had to face the misery of man-made religious disaster. She also used to convey the life and situation of middle-class women on the age. ‘roots’ is the short story which is the combination of the both. Interpersonal relationships and boundless love are the key elements that Ismat Chugtai’s work. Roots is an fictional extract depicting the real life miseries that the common people have to come across during the Indo-Pak partition. ‘Who knows whether the new soil will be conducive for these saplings or make them wilt, these Poor saplings.’ Expresses the love and concern of a mother her children. She in her thoughts is lost  and compares her children with saplings and their home as roots. ’Own land’ is also the expression that the mother is obsessed about. Amma was not sure about the new place that her children are going to reside. The place where one was ...

ROOTS LITERARY APPRECIATION Roots is a short story by Ismat Chugtai which is an depiction of reality on an around the time of India-Pakistan partition. The story presents the love and care that each religion and people have for one another at the mist of communal hatred. The Urdu writer Ismat Chugtai have made the work that provoke the emotions of the readers through a lot of literary expressions which could be found throughout the narration. The feelings were getting stronger while going along with the story. ‘Deadly wound that it would feaster for years to come’, ‘blunt knife of arteries were left open rivers of blood flowed’, shows the pathetic and terrible miseries of poor Indians that they have to face on the timeline. It conveys the killings and atrocities that wiped a large number of population. ‘If one sneeze, one ran there’- the expression shows the love, care and compassion that one had for the other in appa’s and chachu’s family despite caste or politics which were prioritiz...

ROOTS LITERARY APPRECIATION:  By Anjali PV 20umat3731  India has always been a country with a lot of space to accommodate different cultures, religion, ethnicity and what not . Ismat Chugtai , an author with commendable story telling skills succeeded in keeping the reader on the edge through each and every line . The protagonist here is “Amma” , a strong willed lady with a lot of love and respect for everyone around her and so is the other way . The story takes wonderful twirls and turns ..good enough to make a grown man cry by the end . Memories hold invisible souls, is something that Chugtais ink conveyed to me .  In fact, Ismat Chugtais words spoke volumes throught the story, one could easily identify that she has a good way with her words . EXAMPLE  1.“India was operated upon by such clumsy hands and blunt knifes …..’ Here the Britishers are her bait for satire , a rather painful one of course. Their clumsiness with the power they possessed and dragging a country...

 A short story written by Ismat Chughtai, is a fictional take on the impact of the Partition on interpersonal relationships, memory as well as the idea of 'home' and 'community'. Roots mourns over  the lost of an oldmother where her children decide to move to Pakisthan by leaving Amma here.This story mainly focused on  relationship between the neighbouring hindu and muslim family (Abba's  and Rupchandji) .The family lived in love but partition also seperated their love to each other. During the crucial situation while Hindu's returning to India and Muslims to Pakisthan. Amma take the decision to continue in her land and not to leave.When her children leave her her taughts  made the story more beautiful. The inner taughts  like the day she came as mrs Abba ,her first childs birth at the room , her husbands death all are happened her and she felt the real lonliness.At the time of seperation she had a strong believe that Rupchandji  would not involve in s...

                                 ROOTS Roots(Jadien) is a short story written by Ismat Chugtai. It is a fictional take on the impact of the Partition of India on interpersonal relationships between a hindu family and a muslim family, as well as the idea of 'community' and 'home'. The readers are kept on a curious loop while the events unfold slowly and beautifully to the main part of the story. There are plenty of literary devices ,some which are sewn wonderfully into the story. Here are a few below... 1)" India was operated upon by such clumsy hands and blunt knives that thousands of arteries were left open. Rivers of blood flowed, and no one had the strength left to stitch the wounds." India has been personified as a patient and the doctor who operated India is the British who colonized India for many years and then, before leaving and giving Indians their freedom left a deep wound which is the Partit...

 Roots, a short story written by Ismat Chughtai, is a fictional take on the impact of the Partition on interpersonal relationships, memory as well as the idea of ‘home’ and ‘community’. The narrative, which is seen from the perspective of an aged woman ‘Amma’, is an insight into how women experienced the Partition.The language of the story is simple and beautiful. It encapusalutes the partition weaving a beautiful plot around the relationship between a hindu and a muslim family. The story is set in Marwar, just before the declaration of Independence of India and Pakistan, where migrations have already begun taking place. However, despite constant persuasion by her family members, Amma refuses to pack up her belongings and set off for another land.The agony of having to leave one's birthplace, culture Amma does not want to cut off he from roots.She doesn’t want to leave her house for newly formed Pakistan. However, the reader gains an insight into the brutality of the experience as ...