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Khushwant Singh's Book of Unforgettable Women

Author : Khushwant Singh
Publisher : Penguin Books India
ISBN 13 : 9780141000862
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Khushwant Singh's Book of Unforgettable Women 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: "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 widely-read and irreverent author and columnist profiles some of many women in his life. From Ghayoorunnisa Hafeez, the girl who forever changed his attitude towards Muslims, to his wife, Kaval Malik, who is allergic to media publicity; from his old grandmother to the controversial artist Amrita Shergil; from Mother Teresa to Phoolan Devi, Khushwant Singh paints colourful and true-to-life portraits of the women he has known, loved, despised, admired, and lived with. The book also includes some of the women Khushwant Singh has conjured up in the numerous stories and novels he has written over sixty years. The lively Martha Stack (-Black Jasmine'), Lady Mohan Lal (-Karma'), Jean Memsahib (-The Memsahib of Mandla'), the hijra-whore Bhagmati (Delhi), the insatiable Champak (I Shall Not Hear The Nightingale), dark-eyed Nooran (Train to Pakistan) and the free-spirited Molly Gomes (The Company of Women) are only a few of Khushwant Singh's larger-than-life characters who are sure to entertain and amuse the reader.

The Portrait of a Lady

Author : Khushwant Singh
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 8184759045
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (847 download)

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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

Company Of Women

Author : Khushwant Singh
Publisher : Prhi
ISBN 13 : 9780143431589
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (315 download)

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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.

On Women

Author : Khushwant Singh
Publisher : Rupa Publications India
ISBN 13 : 9788129124920
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (249 download)

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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.

The End of India

Author : Khushwant Singh
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 8184750560
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (847 download)

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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.

Truth Love and A Little Malice

Author : Khushwant Singh
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 9351181359
Total Pages : 521 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book Truth Love and A Little Malice written by Khushwant Singh and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2003-02-10 with total page 521 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.

Hymns of Guru Nanak

Author : Nānak (Guru)
Publisher : [New Delhi] : Orient Longmans
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Hymns of Guru Nanak written by Nānak (Guru) and published by [New Delhi] : Orient Longmans. This book was released on 1969 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Delhi

Author : Khushwant Singh
Publisher : Penguin Books India
ISBN 13 : 9780140126198
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (261 download)

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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.

The Collected Novels

Author : Khushwant Singh
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 9351181324
Total Pages : 980 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book The Collected Novels written by Khushwant Singh and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2000-10-14 with total page 980 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 of Partition through the love story of a Sikh dacoit and a Muslim girl; I Shall Not Hear the Nightingale, which deals with the conflict in a prosperous Sikh family of Punjab in the 1940s; and the best-selling Delhi , a vast, erotic, irreverent magnum opus centred on the Indian capital.

Khushwant Singh on Women, Sex, Love and Lust

Author : Khushwant Singh
Publisher : Hay House, Inc
ISBN 13 : 9381398143
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (813 download)

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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.

Women And Men In My Life

Author : Khushwant Singh
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 9350292920
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Women And Men In My Life written by Khushwant Singh and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2006-09-19 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What can you expect when Khushwant Singh irrepressible as ever, cuttingly candid and provocatively truthful decides to write about some of the women and men in his life? An unputdownable volume, which spans his life and his long, chequered career, in which he reminisces about the people he has met, befriended and fallen out with. The list includes film makers, politicians, industrialists, lawyers, civil servants, writers as well as other relatively unknown personalities

Khushwant Singh on Women, Love & Lust

Author : Khushwant Singh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788187478409
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (784 download)

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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:

Paradise and Other Stories

Author : Khushwant Singh
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 8184750498
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (847 download)

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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.

Not a Nice Man to Know

Author : Khushwant Singh
Publisher : Penguin Enterprise
ISBN 13 : 9780143417392
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Not a Nice Man to Know written by Khushwant Singh and published by Penguin Enterprise. This book was released on 2011-08 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This brand new, updated edition, with 18 new pieces from his more recent writings added to the original selection, collects the best of over fifty years of his prose—including his finest journalistic pieces, short stories, translations, jokes and a play, as well as excerpts from his autobiography, novels and non-fiction books. Taken together, this collection shows just why Khushwant Singh is one of the country’s most celebrated and widely-read authors. The Essential Khushwant Singh Collection

On Love and Sex

Author : Khushwant Singh
Publisher : Rupa Publications India
ISBN 13 : 9788129124937
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (249 download)

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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.

99

Author : Khushwant Singh
Publisher : Rupa Publications
ISBN 13 : 9789383064755
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (647 download)

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Download or read book 99 written by Khushwant Singh and published by Rupa Publications. This book was released on 2014 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprising 99 stories, essays, extracts, poems and articles (one for each year of his life), the book is divided into fifteen sections, each one corresponding to a genre that he excelled in. Family Matters contains extracts from his autobiography and some personal narratives; My Beloved Country has some extraordinary writing about India; The Sikhs comprises excerpts from his books essays on the community and translations of the Sikh hymns; The Uses & Abuses of Religion features his articles on the dangers of communalism, and a sublime meditation on religion; his accounts of Pakistan and Pakistanis are included in Passage to Pakistan; he wrote interestingly about famous people all his life, and twelve of his profiles feature in Singular People; a self-taught naturalist, he was passionate about conservation-The Ferocity & Flamboyance of Nature has writings on this theme; Sex on My Mind contains some entertaining ruminations on sex, one of the subjects that he was most associated with in the popular imagination. As with sex, so with humour-a few of his funniest jokes find a place in A Merry Heart. The section Enthusiasms, Rants & Soliloquies has a fair representation of his electrifying polemics on a variety of subjects. The most insightful of his thoughts on life, dealing with adversity, ageing and death find a place In How to Live, How to Die. Selections from the six novels he published are to be found in The Novels; Portrait of a Lady & Other Stories features the eponymous story along with a few others; a great admirer of writers in Urdu, Punjabi and Hindi, he translated many of their works, some of which can be found in Toba Tek Singh: Fiction in Translation and A Passion for Poetry. Together, the various pieces in the book showcase Khushwant Singh's exceptional accomplishments as a writer.

Running Toward Mystery

Author : Tenzin Priyadarshi
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1984819860
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (848 download)

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Download or read book Running Toward Mystery written by Tenzin Priyadarshi and published by Random House. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revered Buddhist monk tells the bracing and beautiful story of a singular life compelled to contemplation, sharing lessons about the power of mentorship and an open mind “A necessary and captivating narrative of spiritual courage and truth seeking far beyond the veil of our contemporary delusions.”—Sting Born in India to a prominent Hindu Brahmin family, the Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi was only six years old when he began having visions of a mysterious mountain peak, and of men with shaved heads wearing robes the color of sunset. “It was as vivid as if I were watching a scene from life,” he writes. And so at the age of ten, he ran away from boarding school to find this place—taking a train to the end of the line and then riding a bus to wherever it went. Strangely enough, he ended up at a Buddhist monastery that was the place in his dreams. His frantic parents and relatives set out to find him and, after two weeks, located him and brought him home. But he continued to have visions and feel a strong pull to a spiritual life in a tradition that he had never heard of as a child. Today, he is a revered monk and teacher as well as President and CEO of The Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he works to build bridges among communities and religions. Running Toward Mystery is the Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi’s profound account of his lifelong journey as a seeker. At its heart is a story of striving for enlightenment, the vital importance of mentors in that search, and of the many remarkable teachers he met along the way, among them the Dalai Lama, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and Mother Teresa. “Teachers come and go on their own schedule,” Priyadarshi writes. “I clearly wasn’t in charge of the timetable and it wasn’t my place to specify how a teacher should teach.” And arrive they did, at the right time, in the right way, to impart the lessons that shaped a life of seeking, devotion, and deep human connection across all barriers. Running Toward Mystery is the bracing and beautiful story of a singular life compelled to contemplation, and a riveting narrative of just how exciting that journey can be.