Author: Khushwant Singh
Editor(s): Rohini Singh
Publisher: HarperCollins
Year: 2003
Language: English
Pages: 247
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8172235054
Description
This book is a selection from Gossip: Sweet and Sour' and 'Malice', in which Khushwant Singh gives you 'the lowdown' on people he has known and places he has visited. In these pages, you will be introduced to people like Mountbatten, Faiz, Shraddha Mata, P C Lal, Phoolan Devi and many others and you will travel to places as well known as Pakistan and Korea and as remote as Papua New Guinea. Irrepressible, incorrigibly provocative, perceptive - Khushwant was never better.
Those of you who have always enjoyed Khushwant's effortless prose, his spontaneous and infectious outpourings will be delighted with his book. Those who are not yet avowed fans are sure to be converted in one reading!
Contents
Preface
Introduction
TO PAKISTAN WITH LOVE
Pakistani Cocktail
>From the Death Sentence to the Gallows
Pakistan: Sweet and Sour
Pakistan: Dream and Reality
Plane to Pakistan
War and Cricket
MANY FACES
Rajiv Gandhi
Sanjay Gandhi
Jag Parvesh Chandra
V P Singh
Balwant Gargi
Dhiren Bhagat
Sahir Ludhianvi
DISCOVERING INDIA
Snake River
Ludhiana: The Fillthy Rich
Why Isn't Aditi Married
Himachal
In Karnataka
Delhi-Bombay-Delhi
AROUND THE WORLD
With Persis to Bahrain
Indonesian Fortnight
Polonaise
Ugadan Memories
Blossoms
Homecoming
Return to Delhi
A Bangladeshi Diary
In Yankee Land
Korean Diary
Korean Courtesans
India and Thailand
Turkish Delights
Papua New Guinea
German Honeymoon
In Gaddafi Land
A Globe-Trotter's Diary