 Shaker is the embodiment of all characteristics available in the Muslim society – not even the political and cultural attitude go beyond.He supports the Muslim League and is a great fan of Muhammad Ali Jinnah and eventually relinquishes a sort of detest against Mahatma Gandhi and other Hindu leaders, though he is in the belief that Pakistan would be a country irrespective of Hindus and Muslims.Possibly, for that very reason, the narrator ‘I’ of the novel speaks about himself at the outset