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Book Synopsis Khushwant Singh Best Indian Short Stories Volume 1 by : Khushwant Singh
Download or read book Khushwant Singh Best Indian Short Stories Volume 1 written by Khushwant Singh and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2012-06-06 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Indian short story is extraordinary in its ability to stick to the traditional rules of the craft and still demonstrate remarkable originality. It revolves around a limited number of characters, confines itself in time and space, and has a well-plotted narrative that drives its central theme. Within the traditional framework, however, creativity flowers and a fresh and imaginative story emerges. This volume is chock-full with such stories, written by authors well known in their regional languages as well as those who have made a name for themselves in English literary circles. Carefully selected by India's literary giant, the late Khushwant Singh, these pieces represent the best of Indian writing from around the country.
Book Synopsis Best Indian Short Stories - Volume-1 by : Khushwant Singh
Download or read book Best Indian Short Stories - Volume-1 written by Khushwant Singh and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2006 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best Indian Short Stories is a work of fiction.
Book Synopsis Khushwant Singh Selects Best Indian Short Stories by :
Download or read book Khushwant Singh Selects Best Indian Short Stories written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Khushwant Singh Selects Best Indian Short Stories by : Khushwant Singh
Download or read book Khushwant Singh Selects Best Indian Short Stories written by Khushwant Singh and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthology of short stories written by authors in their regional languages as well as those in English.
Book Synopsis Memories of Madness by : Khushwant Singh
Download or read book Memories of Madness written by Khushwant Singh and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 tragic legacy of Partition haunts the subcontinent even today. Memories of Madness brings together works by three leading writers who witnessed the insanity of those months. Train to Pakistan, Khushwant Singh’s debut novel, tells the story of a village in Punjab, Mano Majra, where Muslims and Sikhs have co-existed peacefully, till one night in 1947, when a ghost train arrives from across the new border, bearing corpses of butchered refugees. As mistrust grows into hate and the people of Mano Majra lose their humanity, it is left to an outcast, a Sikh dacoit in love with a Muslim girl, to avert another carnage. Bhisham Sahni’s Tamas is a harrowing portrait of a small frontier town in the grip of communal frenzy. Based on the author’s own experience of riots in Rawalpindi, this celebrated novel describes the murder and mayhem triggered off by the discovery of a pig’s carcass outside a mosque. The matchless stories of Saadat Hasan Manto, the greatest short story writer in the Urdu language, round off this collection. In addition to his most famous story, ‘Toba Tek Singh’, the selection includes ten other sketches and stories in which Manto turns his unflinching gaze on history's criminals, victims and unlikely heroes. As moving as they are disturbing, the stories in this volume are of immense relevance in these times, for they constitute a chilling reminder of the consequences of communal politics.
Book Synopsis The Portrait of a Lady by : Khushwant Singh
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 484 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
Book Synopsis Land of Five Rivers by : Khushwant Singh
Download or read book Land of Five Rivers written by Khushwant Singh and published by Orient Paperbacks. This book was released on 2006 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Noted Indian writer and translator Khuswant Singh's tribute to 18 major Punjabi writers whose stories he has translated in this collection of short fiction. The writers included here are familiar names in India - writers such as Amrita Pritam, Saadat Hasan Manto, Khwaja Ahmed Abbas, and also two new women writers, Ajeet Caur and Usha Mahajan - among others.
Book Synopsis Khushwant Singh's Big Fat Joke Book by : Khushwant Singh
Download or read book Khushwant Singh's Big Fat Joke Book written by Khushwant Singh and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2000 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 from his enormous repertoire, including some of the wackiest jokes ever cracked about sex, God and politics.
Download or read book Passages written by Barbara H. Solomon and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-05-05 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 24 stories from today's best indian authors India's literary tradition has found a growing audience around the world. Many talented writers have arrived on the scene, each illuminating different parts of the Indian experience, from years of colonial rule to the unique challenges of life in the West. This important anthology includes short stories and novel excerpts from Salman Rushdie, Kiran Desai, Rohinton Mistry, Jhumpa Lahiri, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Anita Desai, Bharati Mukherjee, R. K. Narayan, and sixteen more.
Book Synopsis The Collected Short Stories of Khushwant Singh by : Khushwant Singh
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.
Book Synopsis Not A Nice Man To Know by : Khushwant Singh
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 464 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.
Book Synopsis The Collected Short Stories of Khushwant Singh by : Khushwant Singh
Download or read book The Collected Short Stories of Khushwant Singh written by Khushwant Singh and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Volume Contains All Of Khushwant Singh`S Short Stories That Have Appeared In Smaller Collections, An Essay `On The Short Story` As A Lively Introduction To This Volume And A Hither To Un Published Story The Convent
Book Synopsis Khushwant Singh Best Indian Short Stories Volume 2 by : Khushwant Singh
Download or read book Khushwant Singh Best Indian Short Stories Volume 2 written by Khushwant Singh and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2012-06-06 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Khushwant Singh, the country's foremost literary figure, serves up another volume of the finest fiction from across India. 'A good read . . . engaging . . . The names live up to their reputation.' - India Today 'Tremendous richness of characters on display.' - Deccan Herald 'Offers much . . . to the discriminating reader.' - Deccan Chronicle 'An eminently readable book . . . The range of geographical areas and social backgrounds that this selection represents are truly vast.' - The Tribune
Book Synopsis Why I Supported the Emergency by : Khushwant Singh
Download or read book Why I Supported the Emergency written by Khushwant Singh and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2015-08-15 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘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 try to distance themselves from their past in the hope that it will fade out of public memory forever. We must not allow them to get away with it,’ says Khuswant Singh, while fearlessly stating his own reasons for championing the Emergency. This bold and thought-provoking collection includes essays on Indira Gandhi’s government, the Nanavati Commission’s report on the 1984 riots and the riots themselves, as well as captivating pieces on the art of kissing and the importance of bathing. Alongside these are portraits of historical figures such as Bahadur Shah Zafar, General Dyer, Ghalib and Maharaja Ranjit Singh as well as candid profiles of the famous personalities he has known over the years, revealing intimate details about their lives and characters. From his reflections on Amrita Sher-Gil’s alleged promiscuity to the experience of watching a pornographic film with a stoic R.K. Narayan, this is Khuswant Singh at his controversial and iconoclastic best. Selected and edited by Sheela Reddy, Why I Supported the Emergency: Essays and Profiles covers three quarters of a century. Straight from the heart, this is unadulterated Khuswant Singh.
Book Synopsis Truth, Love & A Little Malice by : Khushwant Singh
Download or read book Truth, Love & A Little Malice written by Khushwant Singh and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2003-02-10 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Independence and Partition to the Emergency and Operation Blue Star and has known many of the figures who have shaped it. With clarity and candour, he writes of leaders like Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi, the terrorist Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, the talented and scandalous painter Amrita Shergil, and everyday people who became butchers during Partition. Writing of his own life, too, Khushwant Singh remains unflinchingly forthright. He records his professional triumphs and failures as a lawyer, journalist, writer and Member of Parliament; the comforts and disappointments in his marriage of over sixty years; his first, awkward sexual encounter; his phobia of ghosts and his fascination with death; the friends who betrayed him, and also those whom he failed.
Book Synopsis Paradise and Other Stories by : Khushwant Singh
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 110 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.
Book Synopsis The Great Indian Novel by : Shashi Tharoor
Download or read book The Great Indian Novel written by Shashi Tharoor and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this award-winning novel, Tharoor has masterfully recast the two-thousand-year-old epic, The Mahabharata, with fictional but highly recognizable events and characters from twentieth-century Indian politics. Nothing is sacred in this deliciously irreverent, witty, and deeply intelligent retelling of modern Indian history and the ancient Indian epic The Mahabharata. Alternately outrageous and instructive, hilarious and moving, it is a dazzling tapestry of prose and verse that satirically, but also poignantly, chronicles the struggle for Indian freedom and independence.
