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Khushwant Singh

 Khushwant Singh Biography and Important Works 

  • Birth name - Khushal singh , Pet name - Shalle

  • Life Span - 1915- 2014

  • Member of Rajya Sabha (1980- 1986)

  • Author, journalist, politician, lawyer and diplomat.

  •  Editor of newspaper 'YOJNA’  'THE NATIONAL HERALD”  'New DELHI’ and ‘THE HINDUSTAN TIMES’ .

  • He made 'Illustratrd Weekly’ a best seller. Letter to editor is the best part

  • Appointed as a journalist in All India Radio in 1951.

  • Mode of Writting- Sarcasm and Secularism

  • 'With Malice Towards in one an all’ - his Saturday column in Hindustan Times

Awards-

  • Padma Bhushan - 1974, ( returned in 1984 because of blue star operation in Golden Temple)

  • Padma Vibhusan- 2007

  • Grove prize award for Train To Pakistan

  • Sahitya Academy Fellowship by India in 2010

  • Punjab Ratan Award (2006)

 Collection of short stories by khuswant Singh-

  • The Mark Of Vishnu and Other Stories - 1950

  • The Voice of God and Other Stories- 1957

  • A Bride For The Sahib and Other Stories- 1967

Autobiography- “ Truth, Love and a little Malice- 2002

Novels by Khuswant Singh-

  • Train to Pakistan - 1956

  • I Shall Not Hear The Nightingale- 1959

  • Delhi : A Novel - 1990

  • The Company Of Woman - 1999

  • The Sunset Club - 2010

Essay- Why I Supported the Emergency

Short stories by khuswant Singh-

  • The portrait of lady

  • (The portrait of lady is a novel by henry James)

  • Black Jasmine

  • Success Mantra

  • The strain

  • A love affair in London

  • Karma (1989)- Character - Mohan Lal

  • Karma illustrated in “Pride comes before a fall”

    • Fall of Sikh

    • History of Sikh- 1953

    • Maharaja ranjit singh

    • The good the bad and the ridiculous- (last book written at the age of 98)


    • His Epitaph Written by himself - “Here life one who spared.………..he is dead this son of gun” Portrait of a lady (2007)

      • story of the author's grandmother 

      •  sparrow were friend of the grandmother.

      Train to Pakistan

      • First Novel by khushwant singh

      • Written in1950 and  published in 1956.

      • His experience in the 1947 partition inspired him to write Train  to Pakistan.

      • Theme - partition of india and Pakistan

      • Historical fiction

      • Setting - Punjab

      • Mano Majra- name of the village ( fictional border village)

      • Satlaj river mentioned.


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