Khushwant Singh was India”s best-known writer and columnist. He was the 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 and Delhi. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 1974 but returned the decoration in 1984 in protest against the storming of the Golden Temple in Amritsar by the Indian Army. In 2007, he was awarded the Padma Vibhushan. Among the other awards he has received are the Punjab Ratan, the Sulabh International award for the most honest Indian of the year, and honorary doctorates from several universities. He passed away in 2014 at the age of ninety-nine.
36 Ebooks door Khushwant Singh
Khushwant Singh: Burial at Sea
In this, his fifth novel, one of India s most widely read authors returns to territories he knows best: twentieth-century Indian history, bogus religion and sexuality. After Nehru, Victor Jai Bhagwan …
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Khushwant Singh: Paradise and Other Stories
‘Balzac could not have done better’ —The Financial Express In this sparkling collection of stories, India’s best-known writer addresses some pertinent questions: Why do we believe in miracles? Can a …
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Khushwant Singh: THE END OF INDIA
I thought the nation was coming to an end;’ wrote Khushwant Singh; looking back on the violence of Partition that he was witness to over half a century ago. He believed then; and for years afterwards …
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Khushwant Singh: The Vintage Sardar
Khushwant Singh Has Spent A Lifetime Waging War Against Hypocrisy, Humbug And Intolerance. It Has Made Him india”s Most Provocative And Popular Columnist. This New Collection Brings Together His Ess …
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Khushwant Singh: Delhi
I return to Delhi as I return to my mistress Bhagmati when I have had my fill of whoring in foreign lands Thus begins Khushwant Singh s vast, erotic, irrelevant magnum opus on the city of Delhi. The …
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Khushwant Singh: Big Book of Malice
Malice. The word is synonymous with Khushwant Singh; his pen has spared no one. For over four decades as India s most widely-read columnist, he has commented on just about everything: religion, polit …
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Khushwant Singh: Collected Stories
Written by the founder editor of "Yojana", and editor of the "Illustrated Weekly of India". …
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Khushwant Singh: Why I Supported the Emergency
The Emergency has become a synonym for obscenity. Even men and women who were pillars of Emergency rule and misused their positions to harass innocent people against whom they had personal grudges tr …
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Khushwant Singh: Absolute Khushwant
I would like to be remembered as someone who made people smile.’ One of the great icons of our time, Khushwant Singh, 95, is a man of contradictions. An agnostic who’s well-versed in the holy scriptu …
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Khushwant Singh: Sunset Club
Meet the members of the Sunset Club: Pandit Preetam Sharma; Nawab Barkatullah Baig and Sardar Boota Singh. Friends for over forty years; they are now in their eighties. And every evening; at the suns …
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Khushwant Singh: The Company of Women
Recently separated from his nagging, ill-tempered wife of thirteen years, millionaire businessman Mohan Kumar decides to reinvent his life. Convinced that ”lust is the true foundation of love”, he …
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Khushwant Singh: City Improbable
City Improbable is an anthology that brings together writings on Delhi by residents, refugees, travellers and invaders who have engaged with the city at various moments in itslong history. Amir Khusr …
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Khushwant Singh: Portrait of a Lady
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 …
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Khushwant Singh: Big Fat Joke Book
Ribald, rib-tickling and outrageous, Khushwant Singh s inimitable brand of humour has made him a legend in his own lifetime. This volume brings together the funniest and most memorable selections fro …
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Khushwant Singh: Khushwantnama
If there’s anyone who’s been around, seen it all and lived life to the hilt, it has to be Khushwant Singh. India’s most popular and prolific writer has, over the years, enlightened and outraged in eq …
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Khushwant Singh: Hymns Of The Gurus
An illustrated edition containing selected hymns of the ten Sikh Gurus, from Guru Nanak to Guru Gobing Singh, translated by Khushwant Singh. Sacred hymns from the Guru Gibind Singh. …
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Khushwant Singh: Khushwant Singh’s Book of Unforgettable Women
"Though I am nothing to look at, it is women who have sought my company more than I have sought theirs." ‘Khushwant Singh’ In Khushwant Singh’s Book of Unforgettable Women, India’s most wid …
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Khushwant Singh: Ranjit Singh
The Classic Biography Of One Of India’s Greatest Rulers Ranjit Singh Was In Every Way As Remarkable A Man As His Contemporaries, Napoleon And Mohammed Ali. From The Status Of Petty Chieftain He Rose …
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Khushwant Singh: Collected Novels
This volume brings together all the novels, except The Company of Women, by India’s most widely read and celebrated author. Included here are the classic Train to Pakistan that describes the tragedy …
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Khushwant Singh: Truth, Love & A Little Malice
Born in 1915 in pre-Partition Punjab, Khushwant Singh, perhaps India s most widely read and controversial writer has been witness to most of the major events in modern Indian history from Independenc …
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Khushwant Singh: Lost Victory
The Lost Victory perfectly captures the cultural essence of 1942 and the urgency of this colourful and moving pageant of a nation about to throw off the yoke of foreign rule. Essentially, it is the s …
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Khushwant Singh: Not A Nice Man To Know
The essential Khushwant Singh collection. In an essay in this anthology, Khushwant Singh claims that he is not a nice man to know. Whatever the truth of that assertion, there is little question about …
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Khushwant Singh: Train to Pakistan
Mano Majra is a place, Khushwant Singh tells us at the beginning of this classic novel, where Sikhs and Muslims have lived together in peace for hundreds of years. Then one day, at the end of the sum …
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Khushwant Singh: Jannat Aur Anya Kahaniyan
In this sparkling collection of stories, India s best-known writer addresses some pertinent questions: Why do we believe in miracles? Can a horoscope guarantee the perfect wife? Is the Kamasutra a us …
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Khushwant Singh: Khushwantnama
At 98, as I look back on my life, I think about what has enriched it, what s been important to me, the mistakes I ve made, and what my experiences have taught me . . . If there s anyone who s been ar …
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Khushwant Singh: Sahibs Who Loved India
A rare collection of essays that invites the reader to revisit a vanished era of sahibs and memsahibs. From Lord Mountbatten to Peggy Holroyde to Maurice and Taya Zinkin, Britishers who lived and wor …
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Khushwant Singh: Fall of the Kingdom of Punjab
A forgotten classic from India s favourite storyteller This riveting historical narrative is more full of drama than any fiction. With the death of Maharaja Ranjit Singh, the great Punjab empire he h …
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Khushwant Singh: Memories of Madness
Independence for India, in 1947, came with a price: division on the basis of religion. In the communal riots that followed, hundreds of thousands were killed and millions rendered homeless. And the t …
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Amarjit Kaur & Lt Gen Jagjit Singh Aurora: The Punjab Story
6 June 1984: The Indian Army storms the Golden Temple in Amritsar. Called Operation Bluestar, the historic and unprecedented event ended the growing spectre of terrorism perpetrated by the extremist …
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Khushwant Singh: Khushwant Singh Treasury
The Khushwant Singh Treasury Favourite prayers, Poems, Proverbs and Profanities for every day of the year. This unique miscellany will inspire and entertain. From deeply thought-provoking to laugh-ou …
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SHOAIB NADVI & Khushwant Singh: Auratein, Sex, Love Aur Lust
A compilation of suggestive essays written by Khushwant Singh on a vivid theme, which is full of Indian and foreign myths, legends, proverbs and poems. …
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Khushwant Singh: Obituaries: Death at My Doorstep
Khushwant Singh was born in 1915 in Hadali in pre-Partition Punjab. Educated at Government College, Lahore, and at King’s College and the Inner Temple in London, he practised at the Lahore High Court …
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Rudyard Kipling: Kipling’s India
Rudyard Kipling: was he a vampire of the Raj or an Indian born in another skin, who upheld the British empire but gave his heart to the East? Khushwant Singh, celebrated columnist, author and ardent …
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Khushwant Singh: Freethinker’s Prayer Book
In this eclectic and deeply personal collection, Indias grand old man of letters brings together precepts, prayers and practical advice by prophets, poets and philosophers, and his favourite passages …
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Rudyard Kipling: Kipling’s India
Rudyard Kipling: was he a vampire of the Raj or an Indian born in another skin, who upheld the British empire but gave his heart to the East? Khushwant Singh, celebrated columnist, author and ardent …
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Khushwant Singh: Train to Pakistan Penguin Premium Classic Edition
Mano Majra is a place, Khushwant Singh tells us at the beginning of this classic novel, where Sikhs and Muslims have lived together in peace for hundreds of years. Then one day, at the end of the sum …
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