Khushwantnama

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Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 8184759223
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (847 download)

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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 208 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.

Khushwantnama

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Publisher : Prhi
ISBN 13 : 9780143430100
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Khushwantnama written by Khushwant Singh and published by Prhi. This book was released on 2014-02-15 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '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 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.

The End of India

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Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 8184750560
Total Pages : 74 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 74 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.

Khushwant Singh's Joke Book

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Publisher : Orient Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 9788122200133
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (1 download)

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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:

The Sunset Club

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Publisher : Penguin Books India
ISBN 13 : 0670085197
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (7 download)

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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

Truth, Love & A Little Malice

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Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 9351181359
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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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.

Big Book of Malice

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Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 818475146X
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (847 download)

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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 226 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

Sahibs who Loved India

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Publisher : Penguin Books India
ISBN 13 : 0670082414
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Sahibs who Loved India written by Khushwant Singh and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2008 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: &Lsquo;Thus We Both Were Tied To India With Every Possible Bond Of Memory And Affection, Which Clearly Played An Important Part In Our Lives&Hellip;As The Last Viceroy And Indeed&Nbsp;When I Stayed On As The First Governor-General Of The Independent Country Of India.&Rsquo; &Mdash;Lord Mountbatten 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 Worked In India Reminisce About Topics And Points Of Interest As Varied As The Indian Civil Service And The Roshanara Club,&Nbsp;Shikar And Hazri, The Amateur Cine Society Of India And The Doon School, Rudyard Kipling And Mahatma Gandhi. &Nbsp; Selected From A Series Of Articles Commissioned By Khushwant Singh When He Was The Editor Of The Illustrated Weekly Of India These Delightfully Individualistic And Refreshingly Candid Writings Reveal A Fascinating Array Of British Attitudes, Experiences, Observations, Fond Memories, The Occasional Short-Lived Grouses And, Above All, A Deep And Abiding Affection And Respect For India.

Delhi

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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 Freethinker's Prayer Book

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Publisher : Rupa Publications
ISBN 13 : 9788192328041
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book The Freethinker's Prayer Book written by Khushwant Singh and published by Rupa Publications. This book was released on 2012 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quotations from various sacred, philosophical, and literary texts and authors.

The Collected Novels

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Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 9351181324
Total Pages : 748 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 748 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.

Burial at Sea

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Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 818475048X
Total Pages : 103 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (847 download)

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Download or read book Burial at Sea written by Khushwant Singh and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 is Mahatma Gandhi’s favourite Indian—a brilliant young man with the temperament of a leader and fiercely committed to his country. Though Victor adores and respects Gandhi, he disagrees with the Mahatma’s vision for the future of India. He returns from university in England determined to bring the benefits of modern industry to the subcontinent, and within a few years of India’s independence, becomes the country’s biggest tycoon. But this is not the only ideal of Gandhi’s that he defies: facing a midlife crisis, he falls passionately in love with a tantric god-woman (who keeps a tiger as her pet and has a dubious past). She introduces him to the pleasures of unbridled sexuality, but also becomes the reason for his downfall. Comic, tender and erotic by turns, Burial at Sea is vintage Khushwant Singh.

Ethnography of Goa, Daman and Diu

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Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 9351182088
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book Ethnography of Goa, Daman and Diu written by A B de Bragnanca Pereira and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2008-05-14 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The intellectual and cultural efflorescence in Goa reached its apogee in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Antonio Bernardo de Bragana Pereira was a product of this time, and Ethnography of Goa, Daman and Diu is an expression of the author passionate interest in scholarship and research into various dimensions of Goan life. His intellectual curiosity and critical spirit led him to delve deep to understand the lan vital of the society of his ancestors and to catalogue the many dimensions of Goan life. In the book he describes the rituals, customs and manners of various castes and religions, their habitat, their artisanship, their environment and all aspects of Goa and Goan society. Ethnography of Goa, Daman and Diu was published as a two-volume edition in 1940 in Portuguese. In making the second volume available to a larger readership, the publishers perform a dual role of bringing this scholarly work to a new generation of readers and in a language that will be accessible. Its publication is a tribute to A.B. de Bragan.a Pereiras passionate attachment to Goa and his pride in being a Goan.

We Indians

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Publisher : Juggernaut Books
ISBN 13 : 8193284135
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (932 download)

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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!

Gods And Godmen Of India

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Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 9350292440
Total Pages : 109 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Gods And Godmen Of India written by Khushwant Singh and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2012-06-22 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this vibrant volume, Khushwant, in his inimitable style, tackles all issues related to religion, faith, blind faith, new cults, and new movements in other words, he charges like a raging bull to attack the epidemic of gods and godmen that has swept the nation in recent years. Khushwant Singh quotes liberally and with perfect ease from the Adi Granth, Adi Shankaracharya, Upanishads, Koran and other holy books to buttress his arguments.

Death at My Doorstep

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Death at My Doorstep written by Khushwant Singh and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written over the years, Khushwant Singh obituaries present the dead in death, as in life-good, bad or ugly-including Bhutto, Sanjay Gandhi, M.O. Mathai, Lord Mountbatten, and the author's pet Alsatian Simba.

I Shall Not Hear the Nightingale

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Publisher : London : J. Calder
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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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