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 Freedom at Midnight was written by?

 Freedom at Midnight was written by? Correct Answer Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre

The correct option is Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre.

Key Points

  • Literature describing the human cost of independence and partition includes, among others:
  • "Subh-e-Azadi" ('Freedom's Dawn'; 1947), an Urdu poem by Faiz Ahmad Faiz
  • "Toba Tek Singh" (1955), a short story by Saadat Hassan Manto
  • "Train to Pakistan" (1956) by Khushwant Singh
  • "A Bend in the Ganges" (1965) by Manohar Malgonkar
  • "Tamas" (1974) by Bhisham Sahni
  • "AZADI" (1975) by Chaman Nahal, originally written in English and winner of the 1977 Sahitya Akademi Award in India
  • "Ice-Candy Man" (1988) by Bapsi Sidhwa
  • "Forgotten Atrocities" (2012), a memoir by Bal K. Gupta
  • Salman Rushdie's novel "Midnight's Children" (1980), which won the Booker Prize and The Best of the Booker, wove its narrative based on the children born with magical abilities on midnight of 14 August 1947.
  • "Freedom at Midnight" (1975) is a non-fiction work by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre that chronicled the events surrounding the first Independence Day celebrations in 1947.
  • The novel Lost Generations (2013) by Manjit Sachdeva describes the March 1947 massacre in rural areas of Rawalpindi by the Muslim League, followed by massacres on both sides of the new border in August 1947 seen through the eyes of an escaping Sikh family, their settlement and partial rehabilitation in Delhi, and ending in ruin (including death), for the second time in 1984, at the hands of mobs after a Sikh assassinated the prime minister.

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