Khushwant Singh

I Return To Delhi As I Return To My Mistress Bhagmati When I Have Had My Fill Of Whoring In Foreign Lands& Thus Begins Khushwant Singh S Vast, Erotic, Irrelevant Magnum Opus On The City Of Delhi. The Principal Narrator Of The Saga, Which Extends Over Six Hundred Years, Is A Bawdy, Ageing Reprobate Who Loves Delhi As Much As He Does The Hijda Whore Bhagmati-Half Man, Half Woman With Sexual Inventiveness And Energy Of Both The Sexes. Travelling Through Time, Space And History To Discover His Beloved City, The Narrator 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 Special Mystique& And As We Accompany The Narrator On His Epic Journey We Find The City Of Emperors Transformed And Immortalized In Our Minds For Ever.

Delhi

In This His First Novel In Ten Years, Khushwant Singh Has Produced An Uninhibited, Erotic And Endlessly Entertaining. Celebration Of Love, Sex And Passion.

The Company of Women

The fact is, both sides killed. Both shot and stabbed and speared and clubbed. Both tortured. Both raped. It is the summer of 1947. But Partition does not mean much to the Sikhs and Muslims of Mano Majra, a village on the border of India and Pakistan. Then, a local monylender is murdered, and suspicion falls upon Juggut Singh, the village gangster who is love with a Muslim girl. When a train arrives, carrying the bodies of dead Sikhs, the village is transformed into a battlefield, and neither the magistrate nor the police are able to stem the rising tide of violence. Amidst conflicting loyalties, it is left to Juggut Singh to redeem himself and reclaim peace for his village --

Train to Pakistan

1469-1838 (Oxford India Paperbacks)

A History of the Sikhs: Volume 1

I Thought The Nation Was Coming To An End,' Wrote Khushwant Singh, Looking Back On The Violence Of Partition That He Was Witness To Over Half A Century Ago. He Believed Then, And For Years Afterwards, That He Had Seen The Worst That India Could Do To Herself. Over The Last Few Years, However, He Has Had Reason To Feel That The Worst, Perhaps, Is Still To Come. In This Fierce, Uncompromising Book He Shows Us What Few Of Us Wish To See: Why It Is Entirely Likely That India Will Come Undone In The Foreseeable Future. 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. Insurgencies In Kashmir And The North-East, Caste Wars In Bihar, Scattered Naxalite Movements, And The Ghettoization Of Minorities Are Proof That Our Obsession With Caste And Regional And Racial Identity Has Also Splintered The Nation, Perhaps Beyond Repair. 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.

The End of India

Khuswant on Khuswant is irresistable... such is his skill as a writer, simple, lucid, unpretentious, This book has been well worth the wait. India today

An Autobiography

Truth, Love and a Little Malice

'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 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 -India Today His Stories Are Better Than [Those Of] Any Indian Writing In English-Times Of 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

The Portrait of a Lady

Quotations from various sacred, philosophical, and literary texts and authors.

And Some Words to Live

The Freethinker's Prayer Book

In This Sparkling New 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.

Paradise and Other Stories

India: An Introduction is a highly readable and rewarding initiation into a complex, ancient civilization, by one of India's most widely-read writers and journalists. Khushwant Singh tells the story of the land and its people from the earliest time to the present day. In broad, vivid sweeps he encapsulates the saga of the upheavals of a sub-continent over five millennia, and how their interplay over the centuries has moulded the India of today. More, Khushwant Singh offers perceptive insights into everything Indian that may catch one's eye or arouse curiosity: its ethnic diversity, religions, customs, philosophy, art and culture, political currents, and the galaxy of men and women who have helped shape its intricately inlaid mosaic. He is also an enlightening guide to much else: India's extensive and varied architectural splendours, its art and classical literature. Khushwant Singh's own fascination with the subject is contagious, showing through on every page, and in every sidelight that he recounts.India: An Introduction holds strong appeal for just about anyone who has more than a passing interest in the country, Indians as well as those who are drawn to it from farther afield. And for a traveller, it is that rare companion: erudite, intelligent, lively.

India: An Introduction

The Best of Khushwant Singh

Not a Nice Man to Know

Malicious Gossip

Trein naar Pakistan

Covers the social, religious and political background which led to the formation of the Sikh faith in the fifteenth century. Basing his account on original documents in Persian, Gurmukhi and English, the author traces the growth of Sikhism and tells of the compilation of its sacred scriptures in the Granth Sahib.

A History of the Sikhs

Ashok Chopra

There is No God!

Agnostic Khushwant

This is the standard and well established book on its subject, accessible to a general non scholarly audience, while being based on scholarly archival research. Singh exhaustively covers the genesis and development of Sikhism and the Sikh community, up to the time of Maharaja RanjitSingh.

A History of the Sikhs: 1469-1838

Jai Nehru is the other Nrhru in Mahatma Gandhi's life, a brilliant young India with the temparement of a leader and fiercely committed to his country. This is a lively and provocative, comic and erotic vintage Khushwant Singh

Burial at Sea

Maangey Allah se bas itni dua hai Rashid Main jo Urdu mein vaseeyat likhoon beta parh ley All Rashid asks of Allah is just one small gift: If I write my will in Urdu, may my son be able to read it. Urdu, one of the most widely used languages in the subcontinent, is, sadly, dying a slow death in the land where it was born and where it flourished. This definitive collection spans over 200 years of Urdu poetry, celebrating well-known and relatively unknown poets alike. It is essential reading for all who love Urdu verse and for all looking for the ideal introduction.

Celebrating the Best of Urdu Poetry

In this classic, Khushwant Singh presents a concise history of the followers of one of the world's youngest religions. Beginning with the life and times of the founder, Guru Nanak (1469-1539), he moves on to describe the vital contribution made by the following nine gurus in shaping and developing the Sikh religion; and the significance of the Sikh holy book, the Guru Granth Sahib, and its centrality to the religion. He examines the setting up of the Singh Sabha and the accompanying social reform, the impact of the Ghadr rebellion and the Akali agitation for control of various Sikh shrines. The new Afterword by his son, journalist Rahul Singh, brings the story of the Sikhs up to date. Authoritative yet accessible, this is one of the most concise and readable accounts of the Sikhs and their faith.

The Sikhs

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.

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