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The Cancer Train: A Novel
The Cancer Train: A Novel
The Cancer Train is about the notorious train from Bathinda to Bikaner cancer hospital. Punjab is facing an acute ecological crisis as a result of excessive use of harmful farm pesticides and other chemicals that have contaminated the soil, water and air. As a result people are facing serious ailments like cancer, liver dysfunction, mental retardation, stunted growth and many others. The Cancer Train touches almost every malady effecting rural Punjab and it seems that the solution to these crisis is beyond the power of the present dispensation. The author believes that the ruling cabal is working with a design to keep the people ill-educated and hooked to drugs so that they do not ask for jobs. This is a different matter that those problems have ruined thousands of families in the state. Nachhatar a sensitive son of soil, has been able to understand the plight of his people caught in a whirling vortex of time.
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The Cancer Train is about the notorious train from Bathinda to Bikaner cancer hospital. Punjab is facing an acute ecological crisis as a result of excessive use of harmful farm pesticides and other chemicals that have contaminated the soil, water and air. As a result people are facing serious ailments like cancer, liver dysfunction, mental retardation, stunted growth and many others. The Cancer Train touches almost every malady effecting rural Punjab and it seems that the solution to these crisis is beyond the power of the present dispensation. The author believes that the ruling cabal is working with a design to keep the people ill-educated and hooked to drugs so that they do not ask for jobs. This is a different matter that those problems have ruined thousands of families in the state. Nachhatar a sensitive son of soil, has been able to understand the plight of his people caught in a whirling vortex of time.
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Author
Nachhatar Nachhatar is a renowned fiction writer of Punjabi language who is known for writing about the rural distress and disparities in Punjab. A retired Banker from Barnala in Punjab, Nachhatar is now settled in Delhi. He has already published six collections of short stories and an equal number of novels besides miscellaneous writings. His Novel ‘Slow Down’ won the Sahitya Akademi Award that was based on the global financial disaster of 2008 and its fallout in India. Nachhatar is one of the few authors in Punjabi who have crossed the lines and dared not to stick with socio-cultural and kinship rigmarole spawning in his short stories and novels. He has also distanced himself from the authors who are repeatedly chewing the same cud in different jargon. He use to respond to the sensitive issues concerning the society, which are generally ignored by the creative world of Punjabi literature or are not yet responded by them with equal concern.
