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KHUSHWANT SINGH . KHUSHWANT SINGH. ABOUT THE AUTHOR . The real name of author is KHUSHAL SINGH son of mr. sobha singh
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KHUSHWANT SINGH
ABOUT THE AUTHOR • The real name of author is KHUSHAL SINGH son of mr. sobha singh khushwant singh born on 2.FEB.1915 in a village HADALE,KHUSHAB(British India). At this time this village is situated in Pakistan. He studied in ST. STEPHENS COLLEGE and then he complete his higher graduation in LONDON. (Kings COLLEGE).He has a great personality. he is a WRITER , JOURNALIST as well as HISTORIAN.
Khushwant Singh (Punjabi: ) is a prominent Indian novelist and journalist. Singh's weekly column, "With Malice towards One and All", carried by several Indian newspapers, is among the most widely-read columns in the country. An important Indo-Anglian novelist, Singh is best known for his trenchant secularism,[1] his humor, and an abiding love of poetry. His comparisons of social and behavioral characteristics of Westerners and Indians are laced with acid wit. He served as editor of several well-known literary and news magazines, as well as two major broadsheet newspapers, through the 1970s and 1980s.
In August 1947, days before the partition of India and Pakistan, Singh, then a lawyer practicing in the High Court in Lahore, drove to his family's summer cottage at Kasauli in the foothills of the Himalayas. Continuing on to Delhi along 200 miles (320 km) of vacant road, he came upon a Jeep of armed Sikhs who boasted that they had just massacred a village of Muslims.[4] Such experiences were to be powerfully distilled in Singh's 1956 novel Train to Pakistan. (The 2006 edition of Train to Pakistan, published by Roli Books in New Delhi, also contains 66 photographs by Margaret Bourke-White that capture the partition's violent aftermath.)
KHUSHWANT SINGH • He began a distinguished career as a journalist with the All India Radio in 1951. Since then he has been founder-editor ofYojana (1951-1953), editor of the Illustrated weekly of India (1979-1980), chief editor of New Delhi (1979-1980), and editor of the Hindustan times (1980-1983). His Saturday column "With Malice Towards One and All" in the Hindustan times is by far one of the most popular columns of the day.
Novel prizes • There are two national awards given to KHUSHWANT SINGH are • In 1974 they awarded by PADMA BHUSHAN . • In 2007 they awarded by PADMA VIBHUSHAN. the other prizes are sulabh international (honest man of the year) in 2000. punjab ratan award (the government of punjab) in 2006.
Books written by khushwant singh • Big book of malice • the End of india • New indian fiction • The train to pakistan • Khushwant singh • Best indian short stones
Some beautiful moments of Khushwant Singh life with his family