Irony of Murderers
There is an irony in the murders because the murderers are either haunted by their acts or they regret because of killing the wrong person. In ‘Thanda Gosht’, Eesher is haunted by the memories of the people whom he killed and the girl who committed suicide because of the fear of being raped by Eesher. He seems disturbed instead of being satisfied after achieving his aim. In ‘Mishtake’, the murderer regrets for killing the person of his own faith and he realizes this after killing the person.
Irony of Slaughtering
Another irony in the stories is that the people were being slaughtered like animals just because they wanted to migrate to their desired homelands. In ‘Tidiness’, a man asks the murderer to slash the throat of another man but the friend of the murderer replies, ‘You want to mess up this nice carriage? Slaughter him on the platform.’ It is ironical that the carriage was held with more care than the life of a human being. Sirajuddin’s family is also murdered on a platform. In ‘The Garland’, the killing of men for the sake of rescuing the statue of Ganga Ram is ironical because the police slaughtered the living men for saving the statue of a dead man. Furthermore, the injured and the dead ones are taken to the hospital which was created in the name of Ganga Ram to save their lives and there is an irony in this act as well.
Irony of the Simpletons
In the ‘Miracle Man’, it is ironical that the people start worshiping a man just because the water becomes sweat. They do not bother about knowing the reason of sweetness of water and build a shrine on the well and consider the sugar theft as a miracle man. The man threw sugar in the well to save himself from the police and in an attempt of saving himself he fell in the well. Although the people of neighborhood rescued him, but he could not survive. There is an irony that despite of his death, he was kept alive by the ignorant people in the form of his shrine on the well, where lamps were illuminated, and prayers were held.
