Download or read book Khushwant Singh on Women Sex Love and Lust written by Khushwant Singh and published by Hay House, Inc. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of Khushwant Singh’s best writings on his favorite subjects, Women, Sex, Love and Lust is at once witty, informative, thought-provoking and flagrant. Definitely a book you can’t afford to miss! If you are looking for answers to eternal questions like which came first – love or lust, or debates pertaining to celibacy, chastity or arranged marriages, Khushwant Singh delivers his unique exposé. Whether he is analysing the fine dividing line between obscenity, pornography and erotica, describing sex from ‘Chaturbhani’ (200-350 B.C.) or his ideas of a composite Indian woman, Khushwant holds the reader’s attention effortlessly. But that isn’t all – years before terms such as ‘gender issues’ or ‘gender divide’ became popular, he was writing, thinking and sharing his views on them. His deliberations reveal an unexpected side to Khushwant . . . in these pages you’ll also find a rare glimpse of Khushwant the feminist. Women, Sex, Love and Lust abounds with Indian as well as foreign myths, legends, proverbs, and poems ranging from Chaucer, Shakespeare, Whitman to Kalidas, Iqbal and Faiz. Almost each page offers you delectable quotes from Russell to Wodehouse along with special anecdotes which could only come from the inimitable Khushwant. Only he could share with you his intense experience of nudo-phobia suffered in Sweden, his acute observation of Indian whoremongers when abroad, scandals amongst the literati and glitterati – H. G. Wells as a compulsive fornicator or Georges Simenon hammering away at his typewriter (and his women) at the age of eighty are only a few revelations.
Download or read book Khushwant Singh on Women Love Lust written by Khushwant Singh and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 212 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 Sunset Club written by Khushwant Singh and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2010 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 sunset hour, they sit together on a bench in Lodhi Gardens to exchange news and views on the events of the day, talking about everything from love, lust, sex and scandal to religion and politics. As he follows a year in the lives of the three men from January 26 2009 to January 26 2010. Khushwant Singh brings his characters vibrantly to life, with his piquant portrayals of their fantasies and foibles, his unerring ear for dialogue and his genius for capturing the flavour and texture of everyday life in their households. Interwoven with this compelling human story is another chronicle of a year in the life of India, as the country goes through the cycle of seasons, the tumult of general elections, violence, natural disasters and corruption in high places. In turn ribald and lyrical, poignant and profound, The Sunset Club is a deeply moving exploration of friendship, sexuality, old age and infirmity; a joyous celebration of nature; an insightful portrait of India's paradoxes and complexities. A masterpiece from one of India's most-loved storytellers, The Sunset Club will have you in tears and laughter, and grip you from the first page to the last
Download or read book On Love and Sex written by Khushwant Singh and published by Rupa Publications India. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The writing career of Khushwant Singh is more than six decades old. During this time he has come up with several frank and scare free writings that has punctured the prudishness, hypocrisy and humbug of Indian society. He has been quite open in expressing his views on human sexuality and he is considered one of a kind. In on Love and Sex: Selected Writings, he looks back at some of his previous publications like his autobiography, where he details about how he lost his virginity. He describes about a newly married couple, whom he witnessed, as they consummate their marriage on a moving train. This is presented as his rumination of sexuality in India. He then describes about an episode in a doctor's clinic, a poker faced narration, which left Singh with the feeling that he has been 'buggered'. He then picks another topic from his other fiction work called A Mixed Marriage. Here he describes about a Hindu-Muslim union during the times of Mughal. The Rooftop Massage describes about the unusual experience of Mohan Kumar with the Masseuse Molly. Kumar is given the suggestion later on that he should never try it again.
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 Khushwant Singh on Humour written by Khushwant Singh and published by Rupa Publications. This book was released on 2018-05 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book All About H Hatterr written by G V Desani and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2007-11-06 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wildly funny and wonderfully bizarre, All About H. Hatterr is one of the most perfectly eccentric and strangely absorbing works modern English has produced. H. Hatterr is the son of a European merchant officer and a lady from Penang who has been raised and educated in missionary schools in Calcutta. His story is of his search for enlightenment as, in the course of visiting seven Oriental cities, he consults with seven sages, each of whom specializes in a different aspect of “Living.” Each teacher delivers himself of a great “Generality,” each great Generality launches a new great “Adventure,” from each of which Hatter escapes not so much greatly edified as by the skin of his teeth. The book is a comic extravaganza, but as Anthony Burgess writes in his introduction, “it is the language that makes the book. . . . It is not pure English; it is like Shakespeare, Joyce, and Kipling, gloriously impure.”
Download or read book Khushwantnama written by Khushwant Singh and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2013-02-15 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 equal measure, and enriched our lives with his humour, his honesty and his sharp insights and observations. In Khushwantnama, the 98-year-old reflects on a life lived fully and the lessons it has taught him. Here is his distilled wisdom on subjects as diverse as old age and the fear of death; on the joy of sex, the pleasures of poetry and the importance of laughter; on how to cope with retirement and live a long, happy and healthy life. Here, too, are his reflections on politics, politicians and the future of India; on what it takes to be a writer; and on what religion means to him.
Download or read book Of Love and Other Sorrows written by Ashok Chopra and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2016-02-15 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reports announcing the death of the book are now rife, but the continued relevance of the ten master writers discussed in this volume is proof to the contrary. Here we come across the dissident Czech writer Václav Havel, who later became the nation’s president; the South African Nobel Laureate Nadine Gordimer, with her pronounced anti-apartheid novels; the Chilean-American Isabel Allende, ‘the world’s most widely read Spanish author’; and Günter Grass, hailed as the ‘literary spokesman of his generation’. We also meet Graham Greene and Milan Kundera alongside the Egyptian Naguib Mahfouz, who, in his quiet way, ridiculed Islamic fundamentalism. The book is rounded off with three remarkable Latin American writers: Pablo Neruda, Octavio Paz and Gabriel García Márquez. Of Love and Other Sorrows takes the reader on a fascinating journey in the company of some of the biggest names in modern literature. This illuminating study of their lives and works will seduce readers to rediscover these masters for themselves.
Download or read book Agnostic Khushwant written by Khushwant Singh and published by Hay House, Inc. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Instead of entering into a pointless debate on whether or not God exists, it is more important to bear in mind that belief in the existence of God has little bearing on making a person a good or a bad citizen. One can be a saintly person without believing in God and a detestable villain believing in Him. In my personalized religion, there is NO GOD! Khushwant Singh, over the decades, has built up a reputation for coming up with something new and controversial in each book, and he does not disappoint his readers this time too. He begins with a chapter on the ‘need for a new religion – without God’, in which he questions the relevance of God. He then moves on to describe how religion has proved to be more harmful than beneficial and, in the process, debunks astrologers and the breed of so-called ‘godmen’. However, he is not dismissive of religion. Through his lucid writing, he brings out the beauty and significance of holy books such as the Bhagvad Gita, the Quran and the Granth Sahib. He provides relevant extracts to highlight the poetry and the music in such books. The author next tries to dispel the prejudices held by many non-Muslims against their Muslim compatriots by giving down-to-earth examples. He also emphasizes the importance of the Ramzaan fast. Khushwant Singh’s description of the life and times of Guru Nanak and Guru Gobind Singh and his in-depth analysis of the Granth Sahib throw new light on a particularly troubled period in India’s history. The chapter devoted to the interaction of the author (a confirmed agnostic) with the Dalai Lama (probably the world’s most renowned spiritual leader) makes for fascinating reading. Here’s one book containing a wealth of knowledge and information that you would want to read or consult again and again.
Download or read book I Take This Woman written by Rajinder Singh Bedi and published by Orient Paperbacks. This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A raw slice of Punjabi village life! The unusual story of a woman compelled to marry one who she brought of as her own son. A brutally honest exploration of sexuality, society and relationships marked by vivid realism and vigour of narration. "For its powerful characterisation and innate humanity, the book is an outstanding contribution to contemporary Urdu literature." — Sahitya Akademi Award Citation
Download or read book Paradise and Other Stories written by Khushwant Singh and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘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 horoscope guarantee the perfect wife? Is the Kamasutra a useful manual for newlyweds? Margaret Bloom arrives in Haridwar from New York to save her soul. But she soon discovers that there are temptations even on the banks of the holy Ganga. Madan Mohan Pandey, amateur astrologer and scholar of ancient Hindu texts, finds to his horror that his doe-like bride is not quite what he had expected. Pious Zora Singh, Pride of the Nation, rumoured to be a chaar sau bees and a womanizer, silences his detractors by earning the Bharat Ratna. Devi Lal makes his peace with a fickle God when his daughter-in-law delivers a son, following secret visits to the Peer Sahib’s tomb. And Vijay Lall, emboldened by his miraculous escape from death, decides to act upon his silent obsession with Karuna Chaudhury, which takes him to a shifty soothsayer behind the Khan Market loo. Khushwant Singh returns to the short story after decades to deliver a truly memorable collection—humorous, provocative, tongue-in-cheek, ribald and even, at times, tender.
Download or read book On Women written by Khushwant Singh and published by Rupa Publications India. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Khushwant Singh is well known for his brazen interest in the fairer sex. He has revelled in the notoriety that this interest has evoked. Some of his best known works are inspired by the enduring obsession with them, both as a peerless raconteur and as a journalist. on Women: Selected Writings is another good offering from this writer. In his book on Women: Selected Writings, he describes an embarrassing meeting with a drunken actress of yesteryear - Begum Para. He gives a detailed profile of Shraddha Mata and of a tantrik sadhvi who claimed she was the mother of the illegitimate child of Jawaharlal Nehru. Mr Singh also talks about his grandmother, with a touching sketch on the twilight of her life. He also returns to some unforgettable women characters from his previous works of fiction: A clueless American teenager, Georgine, who was taken advantage of by a middle-aged tour guide in Delhi. on Women: Selected Writings, contains a description of a young girl, Nooran, in pre-partition Punjab, who has a sweet feeling of falling in love for the first time but the partition casts a long shadow on her emotions.
Download or read book Terrains of Consciousness written by Zeno Ackermann and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2021-10-01 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TERRAINS OF CONSCIOUSNESS emerges from an Indian-German-Swiss research collaboration. The book makes a case for a phenomenology of globalization that pays attention to locally situated socioeconomic terrains, everyday practices, and cultures of knowledge. This is exemplified in relation to three topics: - the tension between 'terrain' and 'territory' in Defoe's 'Robinson Crusoe' as a pioneering work of the globalist mentality (chapter 1) - the relationship between established conceptions of feminism and the concrete struggles of women in India since the 19th century (chapter 2) - the exploration of urban space and urban life in writings on India's capital - from Ahmed Ali to Arundhati Roy (chapter 3).
Download or read book Their Language of Love written by Bapsi Sidhwa and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2013-02-15 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this brand-new collection of stories, Bapsi Sidhwa returns to chronicling the lives and loves of those on both sides of the Indo-Pak border. A wife worries for her family’s survival during the 1965 Indo-Pak war. A mother is horrified when she learns that her daughter wants to marry her American boyfriend. An American housewife living in Lahore has a tempestuous affair with a Pakistani minister. An aged matriarch travels to the USA to discover she must confront a traumatic memory from her past. Finely nuanced, and laced with Sidhwa’s sharply comic observations, this is a stellar collection of tales from one of the subcontinent’s most important and beloved writers.
Download or read book Life s Mysteries written by Osho and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 1995 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I Teach Love Of Life This Was The Basis Of All Of Osho S Teachings, And One That Was Often Lost In The Controversies That Surrounded Him For Most Of His Career As A Spiritual Guide. A Man Of Vast Learning Who Had Read Everything He Could Find To Broaden His Understanding Of The Belief Systems And Psychology Of Modern Man, He Was At The Same Time Completely Original In His Approach, Insisting On Finding Out The Truth For Himself Rather Than Accepting What Had Been Taught By Others. Iconoclastic Yet Persuasive, Lucid Yet Grounded In A Wealth Of Theological Knowledge, His Message Found A Worldwide Audience. In Life S Mysteries The Reader Is Introduced To Some Of The Key Tenets Of Osho S Philosophy. A Sampling: Life: I Teach The Art Of Living Your Life Totally, Of Being Drunk With The Divine Through Life. Love: If You Really Want To Know About Love, Forget About Love And Remember Meditation (Just As) If You Want To Bring Roses Into Your Garden, Forget About Roses And Take Care Of The Rosebush... In The Right Time, The Roses Are Destined To Come. Sex: If It Can Give Birth To A Child, To A New Life...You Can Imagine Its Potential: It Can Bring A New Life To You Too. Enlightenment: You Should Not Make Any Effort, You Should Relax And Enlightenment Comes. Death: To Me Death Is Not The End Of Life But...The Very Climax...If You Have Lived Rightly, If You Have Lived Moment To Moment Totally, If You Have Squeezed Out The Whole Juice Of Life, Your Death Will Be The Ultimate Orgasm.
