Download or read book Khushwant Singh in the Name of the Father written by Rahul Singh and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'In the Name of the Father' is Rahul Singh's biography of his father, Khushwant Singh, and outstanding journalist and columnist.
Download or read book The End of India written by Khushwant Singh and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2017-10-25 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘I thought the nation was coming to an end’ When Khushwant Singh witnessed the violence of Partition nearly seventy years ago, he believed that he had seen the worst that India could do to herself. But after the carnage in Gujarat in 2002, he had reason to feel that the worst, perhaps, was still to come. Analysing the communal violence in Gujarat in 2002, the anti-Sikh riots of 1984, the burning of Graham Staines and his children, the targeted killings by terrorists in Punjab and Kashmir, Khushwant Singh forces us to confront the absolute corruption of religion that has made us among the most brutal people on earth. He also points out that fundamentalism has less to do with religion than with politics. And communal politics, he reminds us, is only the most visible of the demons we have nurtured and let loose upon ourselves. A brave and passionate book, The End of India is a wake-up call for every citizen concerned about his or her own future, if not the nation’s.
Download or read book Delhi written by Khushwant Singh and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 1990 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travelling through time, space and history to 'discover' his beloved city, the narrator of this novel meets a myriad of people - poets and princes, saints and sultans, temptresses and traitors, emperors and eunuchs - who have shaped and endowed Delhi with its very mystique.
Download or read book Train to Pakistan written by Khushwant Singh and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1975-10-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Train to Pakistan is the story of this isolated village that is plunged into the abyss of religious hate. It is also the story of a Sikh boy and a Muslim girl whose love endured and transcends the ravages of war.
Download or read book Khushwant Singh s Joke Book written by Khushwant Singh and published by Orient Paperbacks. This book was released on 1987 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Company Of Women written by Khushwant Singh and published by Prhi. This book was released on 2016-02 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recently separated from his nagging, ill-tempered wife, millionaire businessman Mohan Kumar decides to reinvent his life. He embarks on an audacious plan: he will advertise for paid lady companions to share his bed and his life. Thus begins his journey of easy, unbridled sexuality in the company of some remarkable women. From Sarojini Bharadwaj, the demure professor from small town Haryana who surprises Mohan with her ardour and sexual energy to the practiced charms of his obliging maid, Dhanno, The Company of Women is the story of a man's sexual exploits, and how it defines his life.
Download or read book The Collected Short Stories of Khushwant Singh written by Khushwant Singh and published by Orient Blackswan. This book was released on 2005 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Khushwant Singh First Established His Reputation As A Writer Through The Short Story. Sine Then He Has Become One Of Indias Most Celebrated Authors, Its Most Widely Read Journalist, And Its Most Outspoken Public Figure. This Volume Contains Stories By Him That Have Appeared In Smaller Collections Of His Work And Separately, In Literary Journals Over Nearly Fifty Years.
Download or read book Khushwant Singh s Joke Book written by Khushwant Singh and published by Orient Paperbacks. This book was released on 2005-03 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making up jokes is no laughing matter. It is a serious business requiring knowledge, insight and experience of what will make people laugh, what will go flat and fizzle out like a damp squib.
Download or read book Ranjit Singh written by Khushwant Singh and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2009-03-24 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Classic Biography Of One Of India&Rsquo;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 To Become The Most Powerful Indian Ruler Of His Time. His Empire Extended From Tibet To The Deserts Of Sindh And From The Khyber Pass To The Sutlej. His Army Was One Of The Most Powerful Of The Time In Asia And Was The First Indian Force In A Thousand Years To Stem The Tides Of Invasion From The North-West Frontiers Of Hindustan. This Is The First Detailed Biography Of The First And Only Sikh Ruler Of The Punjab By A Sikh Writer Who Has Devoted Many Years Of His Life To Research On Sikh History. In This Classic Work Khushwant Singh Presents Ranjit Singh As He Really Was. Based On Persian, Punjabi And English Sources And Drawing Upon The Diaries And Accounts Of European Travellers Like Moorcroft, Sir Alexander Burne, Masson, Fane And Emily Eden, This Is A Memorable Account Of The Pageantry And Brilliance Of The Sikh Kingdom At The Height Of Its Power, And A Lively Portrait Of One Of The Most Colourful Characters In Indian History. &Nbsp;
Download or read book The Portrait of a Lady written by Khushwant Singh and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2009-02-20 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘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. His stories—wry, poignant, erotic and, above all, human—bear testimony to Khushwant Singh’s remarkable range and his ability to create an unforgettable PBI - World. Spanning over half a century, this volume contains all the short stories Khushwant Singh has ever written, including the delightfully tongue-in-cheek ‘The Maharani of Chootiapuram’, written in 2008. ‘Khushwant’s stories enthrall...[He has]an ability akin to that of Somerset Maugham...the ability to entertain intelligently’—PBI - India Today ‘His stories are better than [those of] any PBI - Indian writing in English—Times of PBI - India ‘The Collected Short Stories leaves the reader in a delightful, inebriated trance’—Sunday Chronicle ‘He is not an ordinary short story writer...[Collected Stories] is delightful reading’—Hindustan Times
Download or read book A History of the Sikhs written by Khushwant Singh and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book NOT A NICE MAN TO KNOW written by Khushwant Singh and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2000-10-14 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 his skill as a witty, eloquent and entertaining writer. This book collects the best of over three decades of the author’s prose—including his finest journalistic pieces, short stories, translations, jokes, plays as well as excerpts from his non-fiction books and novels. Taken together, the pieces in this selection (some of which have never been published before) show just why Khushwant Singh is the country’s most widely read columnist and one of its most celebrated authors.
Download or read book We Indians written by Khushwant Singh and published by Juggernaut Books. This book was released on 2016 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sharp and funny dissection of different aspects of the Indian character, from our attitude to sex, religion and women to our views on corruption and the English language. Irreverent and full of witty observations, this is a Khushwant Singh classic!
Download or read book Big Book of Malice written by Khushwant Singh and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2000-10-14 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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, politics, our future, our past, prohibition, impotency, presidents, politicians, cricket, dog-haters, astrologers, the banning of books, the secret of 1ongevity...the list is endless. Candid to the point of being outrageous, Khushwant Singh makes both his reader and subject wince. He writes unabashedly on nose picking, wife-bashing, bribing journalists, gender wars and the desires of an octogenarian; on Nehru and Edwina, Laloo, Bal Thackeray, Chandraswami and Sonia Gandhi, among host of others. Khushwant Singh’s Big Book of Malice brings together some of his nastiest and most irreverent pieces. Witty, sharp and brutally honest, this collection is certain to delight and provoke readers of all ages. ‘Good people can be crashing bores. Evil men who combine evil-doing with drunkenness, debauchery and making illicit money make more interesting characters because they pack their lives with action. They do what most of us would like to do but do not have the guts to.’ —Khushwant Singh
Download or read book Portrait of a Serial Killer written by Khushwant Singh and published by Rupa Publications. This book was released on 2015 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Portrait of a Serial Killer is an unforgettable celebration of India and Indians by one of our most beloved writers. Published on the hundredth anniversary of Khushwant Singh's birth, none of the essays in this collection has been published in book form before. A chilling account of the serial killer Raman Raghav rubs shoulders with an extraordinary portrait of Jawaharlal Nehru followed by an exuberant encounter with Dev Anand, as well as nearly twenty other profiles of saints, charlatans, writers, singers, politicians and other arresting characters. Another section of the book contains vivid sketches of various parts of the country - an unspoilt tribal village in Bihar, the fire of a gulmohar forest in Bokaro, the strange goings-on in the expat community in Darjeeling, a small community in the hinterland that is terrorized by a sudden invasion of snakes and a bittersweet paean to Delhi, among others. There are also essays that provide insights into familiar characteristics of India - obnoxious VIPs, violence against women, corruption, amiable lunatics, idiot lawyers, stud bulls, Indian men and much else besides. Elegiac, witty and compelling, this is a book that will delight Khushwant Singh's numerous fans as well as anyone with an interest in contemporary India. Book Features: Collects together essays that have never been published in book form before Selected from the notes and versions of drafts - handwritten and typewritten - by his daughter Mala Dayal The essays are timeless and provide an incisive portrait of India and her people Contains the chilling account of one of India's most notorious serial killer, Raman Raghav
Download or read book General Knowledge 2022 written by Team Prabhat and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GENERAL KNOWLEDGE 2021 (For All Competitive Examinations) • J&K AND LADAKH NEW MAP • INDIAN HISTORY • ART AND CULTURE • WORLD HISTORY • GEOGRAPHY • ENVIRONMENT AND ECOLOGY • INDIAN POLITY AND CONSTITUTION • INDIAN ECONOMY • SCIENCE • SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY • WORLD PANORAMA • INDIAN PANORAMA • BOOKS AND AUTHORS • AWARDS AND HONOURS • GAMES AND SPORTS • ABBREVIATIONS
Download or read book I Shall Not Hear the Nightingale written by Khushwant Singh and published by London : J. Calder. This book was released on 1959 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A colorful and moving pageant of an ancient people about to throw off the yoke of foreign rule. Essentially, it is the story of Buta Singh, a shrewd and wily official working with the British, and of Sher Singh, his vain and ambitious son driven to rebellion against the foreign master. It is also the story of the women of the family--Champak, Sher's beautiful wife, her wild passions bursting the bonds of century-old prohibitions, and Sabhrai, Sher's mother, whose matriarchal strength sustains the family in its time of crisis. What happens to this family when a brutal and senseless murder sets father against son, wife against husband, is told against the background of an India torn by religious tension and fraternal strife."--Goodreads
