Transforming Pain into Literature

<jats:p>This paper examines how trauma, loss, and collective suffering experienced during the 1947 Partition of the Indian subcontinent are represented and reshaped into literature. Through an analysis of select works by Saadat Hasan Manto, Khushwant Singh, Amrita Pritam, Bhisham Sahni, and Bapsi Sidhwa, the study explores literature as a medium of memory, resistance, and healing. By examining how these authors transform traumatic experience into literary expression, this study demonstrates that Partition literature serves as both witness and moral compass, challenging simplified narratives of communal violence while preserving memories that official histories often suppress or sanitize.</jats:p>