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We Indians
What makes you proud to be Indian and what makes you ashamed to be one? What makes a Hindu a Hindu? Why are Indians such champion sycophants and name-droppers? And does love really matter in an Indian marriage? In his sharp and funny dissection of different aspects of the Indian character, Khushwant Singh tackles these and other questions with his characteristic candour, humour and gift for telling a riveting tale.]
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Sex Scotch And Scholarship (सेक्स स्कॉच अँड स्कॉलर
खुशवंत सिंग म्हणजे एक बहुरंगी आणि बहुढंगी असे व्यक्तिमत्त्व, साहित्य, इतिहास, संस्कृती, तत्त्वज्ञान आणि विविध विषयांवरील स्तंभलेखन यामुळे ते भारतात व परदेशातही वाचकप्रिय लेखक आहेत.‘सेक्स, स्कॉच अँड स्कॉलरशिप’ या त्यांच्या निवडक लेखसंग्रहात काही सेक्स, थोडी स्कॉच आणि बरंच काही स्कॉलरशिप, अशा विषयांवरील लेख आहेत. त्यांचे निसर्गप्रेम, पंजाब प्रश्नाबाबतची आस्था, जगातील सर्व धर्मांचा अभ्यास आणि त्याचबरोबर स्वत:च्या शीख धर्माचे संशोधन, या विषयांवरील अभ्यासपूर्ण आणि उत्कट विवेचन ही या संग्रहाची वैशिष्ट्ये आहेत. खुशवंत सिंग यांचे खास खुसखुशीत आणि परखड शैलीत केलेले स्वत:चे सविस्तर असे लिखाण हे या पुस्तकाचे आणखी एक वैशिष्ट्य आहे. किंबहुना खुशवंत सिंग यांनी लिहिलेल्या व्यक्तिचित्रांपैकी हे परिपूर्ण असे व्यक्तिचित्र आहे. खुशवंत सिंग यांच्या ‘सेक्स, स्कॉच अँड स्कॉलरशिप’ या पुस्तकातील एकूण लेखनाचा केंद्रबिंदू हा ‘माणूस’ आहे, म्हणून हे लेख वाचताना प्रत्येकजण नकळत अंतर्मुख होतो.
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Classic Khushwant Singh
Khushwant Singh, one of India's most widely read and celebrated authors, has delighted readers for generations. This omnibus edition brings together all of Singh's novels-four classic of modern Indian literature. Following titles are: Train to Pakistan I Shall Not Hear the Nightingale Delhi Burial at Sea
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Train To Pakistan (ट्रेन टू पाकिस्तान)
खुशवंतसिंग यांची ही गाजलेली कादंबरी १९५६ मध्ये प्रकाशित झाली होती. मात्र आजही या कादंबरीची लोकप्रियता कमी झालेली नाही. स्वातंत्र्यानंतर देशाच्या झालेल्या फाळणीची पार्श्वभूमी या कादंबरीला लाभली आहे. राजकीय पटलावर ज्या घडामोडी घडत असतात त्याचे पडसाद भारत - पाकिस्तान सीमेवर राहणाऱ्या लहानशा गावांमध्ये कसे उमटतात, त्याचे चित्रण त्यातून केले आहे. तेथीलच एका गावात शीख आणि मुस्लिम बंधुभावाने राहात असतात. फाळणीशी त्यांचा संबधीही नसतो. शिखांच्या मृतदेहांनी भरलेली ट्रेन अशा घटना - प्रसंगांनी व्यापलेल्या या कादंबरीचा थरार रोमांच उभे करतो. खुशवंतसिंग यांची खास शैली अनिल किणीकर यांच्या रसाळ अनुवादात उतरली आहे.
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Ways Of Dying Stories And Essays
Amitav Ghosh/ George Orwell/ Khushwant singh/ Ruskin Bond/ Mahashewta Devi/ Munshi Premchand/ Amitava Kumar/ Atul GawandeOne of the meanings of the word ‘olio’ is ‘a miscellany’. The books in the Aleph Olio series contain a mélange of the best writing to be had on a variety of themes, and present aspects of India and Indian life in ways that have seldom been seen before. Ways of Dying comprises stories and essays of deep insight into an inevitable part of life—death. The pieces in the book include Amitav Ghosh on the assassination of Indira Gandhi and its aftermath, Ruskin Bond on memories of his father’s funeral, Amitava Kumar on how it is necessary to find comfort and solace in the midst of profound grief, Mahasweta Devi on murder and revenge in rural India, and Atul Gawande on assisted suicide and what doctors fear the most when faced with the mortality of their patients. Elsewhere in the anthology, the reader will find one of Munshi Premchand’s greatest stories, ‘The Shroud’, a peerless meditation on the hypocrisies and feigned grief of dysfunctional families on the death of a family member, balanced by Khushwant Singh’s poignant essay on the death of his beloved grandmother. Rounding out the selection are George Orwell on the complex reasons that often lead to innocent blood being shed, David Davidar on the sadness and turmoil that whirls through a family upon the death of a patriarch, and Kolakaluri Enoch on the tragic death of a young girl.
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Delhi A Novel
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 forever.
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We Indians
What makes you proud to be Indian and what makes you ashamed to be one? What makes a Hindu a Hindu? Why are Indians such champion sycophants and name-droppers? And does love really matter in an Indian marriage? In his sharp and funny dissection of different aspects of the Indian character, Khushwant Singh tackles these and other questions with his characteristic candour, humour and gift for telling a riveting tale.
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Best Indian Short Stories - Volume-2
This volume of short stories selected by Khushwant Singh is an excellent collection of stories written by several Indian authors who have made a name for themselves in their regional languages as well as in English. Khushwant has carefully selected some of the best told tales from across the country, stories that bring out the essence of our tradition and also express human emotions that are not confined by time and boundaries. Some of the titles chosen for this collection are written by people like Kamala Das, M. J. Akbar, Mulk Raj Anand, Ruskin Bond, Anita Desai, Shashi Deshpande, Margaret Bhatty, Rajinder Singh Bedi, Suresh Chopra, Manoj Das, K. S. Duggal, Krishan Chander, Ismat Chugtai, Colleen Gantzer, Hugh Gantzer, Wendy Fernandes, and Balwant Gargi.
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Portrait of a Serial Killer
Portrait of a Serial Killer is an unforgettable celebration of India and Indians by one of our most beloved writers. Published on the hundredth anniversary of Khushwant Singhs birth, none of the essays in this collection has been published in book form before. A chilling account of the serial killer Raman Raghav rubs shoulders with an extraordinary portrait of Jawaharlal Nehru followed by an exuberant encounter with Dev Anand, as well as nearly twenty other profiles of saints, charlatans, writers, singers, politicians and other arresting characters. Another section of the book contains vivid sketches of various parts of the country - an unspoilt tribal village in Bihar, the fire of a gulmohar forest in Bokaro, the strange goings-on in the expat community in Darjeeling, a small community in the hinterland that is terrorized by a sudden invasion of snakes, and a bittersweet paean to Delhi, among others. There are also essays that provide insights into familiar characteristics of India - obnoxious VIPs, violence against women, corruption, amiable lunatics, idiot lawyers, stud bulls, Indian men and much else besides. Elegiac, witty and compelling, this is a book that will delight Khushwant Singhs numerous fans as well as anyone with an interest in contemporary India.
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The Fall Of The Kingdom of The Punjab
A forgotten classic from Indias favourite storyteller. This riveting historical narrative is more full of drama than any fiction. With the death of Maharaja Ranjit Singh, the great Punjab empire he had built was riven by intrigues, betrayals, assassinations and wars until the British finally annexed it, seizing the Kohinoor diamond and sending the young Maharaja Duleep Singh into exile in Britain. Khushwant Singh brings this turbulent period to vivid life in this page-turning account of the collapse of a once-mighty kingdom.
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99 : Unforgettable Fiction, Non - Fiction, Poetry
The definitive anthology of the work of one of our greatest and most entertaining writers. 99 collects in a single volume the finest pieces Khushwant Singh published over the course of a long and prodigiously creative life. The essays, extracts, stories and poems (one for each year of his life) have been chosen for their excellence or because they represent an aspect of the authors versatility and range. Some of the selections are well known. Others have never been published in book form. The book is divided into fifteen sections and showcases his exceptional achievement as a writer. Family Matters contains extracts from his autobiography and some personal narratives, My Beloved Country has some extraordinary writing about India. The Sikhs comprises excerpts from his books A History of the Sikhs and Ranjit Singh and essays on the community and translations of the Sikh hymns. The Uses and Abuses of Religion features his articles on the dangers of communalism and a sublime meditation on religion, Khushwant Singhs accounts of Pakistan and Pakistanis (including one of the most dazzling examples of journalism in our time, The Hanging of Bhutto) are included in Passage to Pakistan, he wrote interestingly about famous people all his life and twelve of his profiles feature in Singular People, a self-taught naturalist, he was passionate about the world of nature-The Ferocity & Flamboyance of Nature has writings on this theme. All About Sex contains some entertaining ruminations on sex, one of the subjects that he was most associated with in the popular imagination. As with sex, so with humour-a few of his funniest jokes find a place in A Merry Heart. Enthusiasms, Rants & Soliloquies has a fair representation of his electrifying polemics on a variety of subjects. A wise and honest man, his most insightful pieces on life, dealing with adversity, ageing and death find a place in How to Live, How to Die. As a novelist, he was superlative-selections from the six novels he published are to be found in The Novels, Portrait of a Lady and Other Stories features the eponymous story along with a few others, a great admirer of writers in Urdu, Punjabi and Hindi, he translated many of their works, some of which can be found in Exchange of Lunatics - Fiction in Translation and A Passion for Poetry. Published on the anniversary of Khushwant Singhs birth, this is the definitive anthology of the work of one of our greatest and most entertaining writers-it will offer the reader page after page of thought-provoking pleasure.
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The Collected Novels
This volume brings together all the novels, except The Company of Women, by India's most widely read and celebrated author. Included here are the classic Train to Pakistan that describes the tragedy of Partition through the love story of a Sikh dacoit and a Muslim girl; I Shall Not Hear the Nightingale, which deals with the conflict in a prosperous Sikh family of Punjab in the 1940s; and the best-selling Delhi , a vast, erotic, irreverent magnum opus centred on the Indian capital.
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The Sunset Club
Meet the members of the Sunset Club: Pandit Preetam Sharma, Nawab Barkatullah Baig and Sardar Boota Singh. Friends for over forty years, they are now in their eighties. And every evening, at the sunset hour, they sit together on a bench in Lodhi Gardens to exchange news and views on the events of the day, talking about everything from love, lust, sex and scandal to religion and politics. As he follows a year in the lives of the three men—from January 26 2009 to January 26 2010—Khushwant Singh brings his characters vibrantly to life, with his piquant portrayals of their fantasies and foibles, his unerring ear for dialogue and his genius for capturing the flavour and texture of everyday life in their households. Interwoven with this compelling human story is another chronicle – of a year in the life of India, as the country goes through the cycle of seasons, the tumult of general elections, violence, natural disasters and corruption in high places. In turn ribald and lyrical, poignant and profound, The Sunset Club is a deeply moving exploration of friendship, sexuality, old age and infirmity; a joyous celebration of nature; an insightful portrait of India’s paradoxes and complexities.
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New Indian Fiction
New Indian Fiction : Contemporary Writing In this unparalleled collection of short stories, The HarperCollins Book of New Indian Fiction presents an absorbing view of one of the most fertile literary landscapes in the world. Traversing continents and orbits, styles and themes, in rich, original and frequently surprising ways, the stories testify to the range and depth of Indian writing in English. Variously lyric, satiric, tragic and fantastic, they are unified in their vigour and humanity. T The anthology features a rich assortment of voices from both new authors and established names including Abraham Verghese, Manju Kapur, Githa Hariharan and Amitava Kumar. With an insightful introduction by Khushwant Singh, one of India’s foremost literary personalities, this is the definitive survey of a lively modern scene.