To prevent their recurrence, Singh says "the only way is to promote closer integration of people of different races, religions and castes living in the subcontinent." "The only conclusion that we can draw from the experience of partition in 1947 is that such things must never happen again," he writes in a new chapter 1956 - 2006: Train to Pakistan. The necessity of passports, visas and reporting to the police on arrival and departure have made travelling from one country to another cumbersome," writes Singh, in the new edition of the book, published 50 years after its first edition came out in 1956. "Families were divided and close friends parted forever. Fifty years after Khushwant Singh's best seller Train to Pakistan was first published, noted writer and author has said "the wounds inflicted by the partition will take a long, long time to heal."
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