Author: Khushwant Singh
Editor(s): Rohini Singh
Publisher: HarperCollins
Year: 2003
Language: English
Pages: 254
ISBN/UPC (if available): 81-7223-651-4
Description
Written in author's characteristically saucy, no-holds-barred style, each sketch reveals intimate tidbits about the ' dramatize personae' and also throws light on unknown aspects of their personalities. Almost each profile provides fascinating insights into the complex human psyche. This volume is vintage Khushwant - racially readable, amusing and provocative.
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.
Contents
Introduction
PART ONE
Devyani Chaubal
Sadia Dehlavi
Indrani Aikath Gyaltsen
Shayoorunnissa Hafeez
Anees Jung
Dharma Kumar
Nirmala Matthan
Kamna Prasad
Prem Subramaniam
Amrita Shergil
Reeta Devi Varma
The Beggar Maid
PART TWO
Chetan Anand
Romesh Chander
Balwant Gargi
Inder Sain Johar
Gopal Das Khosla
Prem Kirpal
Pratap Lal
A G Noorani
Rajni Patel
Manzur Qadir
Bharat Ram
Krishen Shungloo
Charanjit Singh
N Iqbal Singh
Satendra Singh