written by Saadat Hasan Manto
and published in 1955
. It follows inmates in a Lahore
asylum some of who are to be transferred to India
following the 1947 Partition
. The story is a "powerful satire" on the relationship between India and Pakistan. A film based on a play adaptation was made in 2005.
The story is set two or three years after the 1947 Partition, when the governments of India and Pakistan decided to exchange their Muslim, Sikh and Hindu lunatics, and revolves around Bishan Singh, a Sikh inmate of an asylum in Lahore
, who is from the town of Toba Tek Singh
.
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"The chief fuddling they make in the island is Rumbullion, alias Kill-Divil, and this is made of sugar canes distilled, a hot, hellish, and terrible liquor". -- 17th Century account
"Fifteen men on the dead man's chest-Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!" -- Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
"Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash." -- Attributed to, and denied by, Winston Churchill
"Where I go, I hope there's rum" - Jimmy Buffett
"But why's the rum gone?" - Johnny Depp as "Captain Jack Sparrow", The Pirates of the Carribean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
"Hide the rum." - Johnny Depp as "Captain Jack Sparrow", The Pirates of the Carribean: Dead Man's Chest
"I prefer rum. Rum is good." - Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean:At World's End