The Question of Sanity in Insanity and Insanity in Sanity: An Investigation into the Madness of Deewane Maulvi Sahab and other sleepwalkers in Joginder Paul’s Sleepwalkers.

Abstract

The Indian partition is a cataclysm. It impacts the Mohajirs.  They have no desire to remove their past from their consciousness.  Thus, in Karachi, they build India's Lucknow. They exist in a state of limbo between dream and reality. Their migration from India to Pakistan gives them a sense of haunting trauma and mnemonic experiences. It shows how difficult it is for them to accept their memories of the abandoned home. Thus, they slip from sanity into insanity and from insanity into sanity.