Author: Khushwant Singh
Editor(s): Rohini Singh
Publisher: HarperCollins
Year: 2003
Language: English
Pages: 280
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8172235062
Description
This selection of Khushwant Singh's prose is like the man himself: blunt, perceptive, incorrigibly provocative, often amusing but always bubbling with life. The book includes candid portrayals of public personalities such as Zail Singh, Rajiv Gandhi, Nani Palkhivala, Rajni Patel and Nargis Dutt. There are also vivid portraits of places such as Delhi, Amritsar, Goa, Lucknow, Bhopal and Hyderabad. Then there are his musings on such issues as communalism, terrorism and bride-burning, still as valid today as when the pieces were first written.
Effortlessly written and well-researched, these pieces bring home afresh the diversity and depth of Khushwant Singh's writings.
Contents
Introduction
PART I: WITH MALICE UNSPARED
Seeing Oneself
An Unfulfilled Dream
Zail Singh
George Fernandes
Rajni Patel
Y B Chavan
Nani Palkhivala
P C Lal
M O Mathai
Padmaja Naidu
Shraddha Mata
Dhirendra Brahmachari
Nargis Dutt
Prabha Dutt
Slippery Sobhraj
In the Tracks of Phoolan Devi
Mountbatten
Zia-ur Rahman
Percival Spear
Abdul Sattar
G S Fraser
Faiz Ahmed Faiz
Ingrid Bergman
Men Who Rule Us
Aurangzeb
PART II: GOING PLACES
To Syria with Love
Pages from a German Diary
Home to Hadali
Delhi-New Delhi
House of Praise: Amritsar
In Goa with Shabana Azmi
The Land of 36 Forts: Chattisgarh
Lucknow, in Search of the Past
In Bhopal when Younger
Temples of the Sun: Konark
Hyderabad
PART III: MUSINGS
A Formula for Peace in Punjab
The Hinduism of Nirad C Chaudhari
What's Happened to Family Planning?
Make Peace with Violence
Killing Communalism
Bride-Burning
Hanging Tamasha
Bill-Ranga Hangings
Haste
Why Bring in God?
Race Hatred
Confusions about Marriage
On Death and Dying