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On Women: Selected Writings
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| Author:
Khushwant Singh
| Language:
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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. The book is in paperback format and is published by
Rupa Publications India in 2014.Key Features:On Women: Selected Writing is
poignant, insightful and wicked at times. The extracts and the essays are
proofs of what makes Khushwant Singh one of the most celebrated writers in
India.
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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. The book is in paperback format and is published by
Rupa Publications India in 2014.Key Features:On Women: Selected Writing is
poignant, insightful and wicked at times. The extracts and the essays are
proofs of what makes Khushwant Singh one of the most celebrated writers in
India.
About Author
Khushwant Singh is Indias best
known writer and columnist. He has been founder editor of Yojana and editor
of the Illustrated Weekly of India, the National Herald and the Hindustan
Times. He is the author of classics such as Train to Pakistan, I Shall Not
Hear the Nightingale and Delhi. His latest novel, The Sunset Club, written
when he was 95, was published by Penguin Books in 21. His nonfiction includes
the classic two volume A History of the Sikhs, a number of translations and
works on Sikh religion and culture, Delhi, nature, current affairs and Urdu
poetry. His autobiography, Truth, Love and a Little Malice, was published by
Penguin Books in 22.
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