Khushwant Singh -- English Writer: The South Asian.

Khushwant Singh apparently needs no introduction to an average Indian and his manner of constructing an Indian sensibility has got few parallels. The book sketches out a panoramic view of British India, close to its end of colonialism. The central characters include Buta Singh, a faithful Governm.

A Khushwant Singh short story is not flamboyant but modest, restrained, well-crafted.Perhaps his greatest gift as a writer is a wonderful particularity of description'-London Magazine Khushwant Singh first established his reputation as a writer through the short story.

Khushwant Singh was India's best-known writer and columnist. He was founder-editor of Yojana and editor of the Illustrated Weekly of India, the National Herald and Hindustan Times. He is the author of classics such as Train to Pakistan, I shall Not Hear the Nightingale (retitled as The Lost Victory) and Delhi. His non-fiction includes the classic two-volume A History of the Sikhs, a number of.

Khushwant Singh: Noted writer and journalist Novelist, journalist, diplomat and lawyer, he is today best known for his literary works. Winner of Padma Vibhushan and Sahitya Akademi Fellowship, he.

Khushwant Singh is a journalist and novelist. Born in a Sikh family in Punjab, Singh tells in his autobiography, Truth, Love and a Little Malice, that his exact date of birth is not known but it was sometime in August 1915.His father was a building contractor in Delhi.

An excellent book that covers the rise of religious fundamentalism in India which now seems to be at its zenith. Khushwant Singh captures the malevolent disease that is hurting one of the world's largest nations and exposes it to the world. These dark forces if they continue unchallenged will indeed bring about the end of India.

Over a career spanning upwards of six decades, Khushwant Singh has done more to puncture the humbug, hypocrisy and prudishness of Indian society with his frank and unabashed explorations of human sexuality than any other Indian writer writing in English.

Amrita Singh has been a dedicated Bollywood actress for years. Amrita Singh left her career as an actress when she married Bollywood actor, Saif Ali Khan, in 1991, even though he was years younger than her. Saif Ali Khan is the son of Bollywood actress, Sharmila Tagore, and Indian cricketer Mansoor Ali Khan. Amrita and Saif have two children, a.

Khushwant Singh was a member of Parliament from 1980 to 1986. Among other honours, he was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 1974 by the President of India (he returned the decoration in 1984 in protest against the Union Government's siege of the Golden Temple, Amritsar). Truth. Love and a Little Malice: An Autobiography. KHUSHWANT SINGH. PENGUIN BOOKS.

Rahul Singh, the son Khushwant Singh, is a writer and journalist. Educated in St Stephen's, Delhi University and King's College, Cambridge, he began his career as the youngest ever Assistant Editor with the Times of India. Rahul is associated with. More about Rahul Singh.

Khushwant Singh attended a modern school where, by his own admission, his distinction was a record in zeros in arithmetic. However he excelled in Urdu. It was, perhaps an early streak of a writer in him. Later on he attended Government college in Lahore. Soon Khushwant was sent to Kings College, Cambridge and the Inner Temple in London.

NEW DELHI: Journalist and famous writer Khushwant Singh passed away on Thursday at the age of 99, NDTV reported. According to his son, the well-known writer died at his residence in Sujan Singh.