Gulzar's 'Toba Tek Singh' Full Analysis In Detail
"TOBA TEK SINGH" BY GULZAR Image Gulzar , besides being a writer and a poet , is a veteran filmmaker as well as a lyricist . Among many of his writings , Toba Tek Singh is a poem which refers to the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947 . The poem comprises two major sections found according to the subject matter of this poem : the first one presents a preliminary sketch of Bishan Singh , and the rest contains the main idea of the poet . First of all , it has to be mentioned that the poem Toba Tek Singh is , to a great extent , Gulzar's first emotional response to Sadat Hossain Manto's Toba Tek Singh . In the introductory part of the poem , we find that the poet feels a need or must to meet Bishan Singh at Wagha border where Manto has terminated his story, to tell him that , as an impact of the partition , the horrific ongoing events still continue . But , there his mental agony is literally revealed by his swollen feet and by his facial expression whi...