i have recently completed reading an autobiography of Khushwant Singh, 'Thruth, Love and Little Malice. I was interested to ready anything written by Khushwant Singh because of a comment I had heard from Shobhaa De that he has nothing original to write & all this books are centered towards the same subject.Nandani Mehta in an introduction to the book 'not a nice man to know' addresses it as "some dam sexy pages, yaar!"
So this autobiography has none of those pages! (except may be 2-3 enounters with a fat french lady & an american lady, but be sure nothing materializes)
Khushwant Singh was born with a golden spoon. it is just by the virtue of this that he could go to best of the places, study at best of the university and never had a materially struggling life. He did struggle with himself, changed careers & he cudgeled noted personalities and laureates of his time. He has penned his success and failures of his profession. He has been a lawyer, journalist, writer & a member of Rajya Sabha
His writing is lucid & very interesting. And definitely comes across as a pendent personality. I continued to get interested because of his political connections & anecdotes surround the same.
He writes about prominent events like partitions, operation Blue Star, emergency etc and other event where he was affected like Sanjay Gandhi's death, family dynamics of Gandhi family when Indira Gandhi was the PM, formation of Akali Dal, his Padma Vibhushan and giving up of the same.
A para that convinces me about his forward thinking 'Who wants virgins? Good looking women with experience, vivacity and brains make much better lovers and companions' :)
One of the concluding chapters has his take on religions & rituals. He has completely dismissed any activity that involves wastage of time including prayers. he incredulously disbands astrology & numerology too. He exhibits no prude when talking about the same and is a believer of a single life. He eloquently writes about death too.
This book has introduced me to lot of authors i had never heard off. Some of them are Anita Desai, Ruth Jhabvala, Nirad Chaudhuri, VS Naipaul etc. Some of his favorites are Aldous Huxleyan & Somerset Maugham
This one is a must read.
PS: Personally i feel I will never be able to write myself an autobiography!
So this autobiography has none of those pages! (except may be 2-3 enounters with a fat french lady & an american lady, but be sure nothing materializes)
Khushwant Singh was born with a golden spoon. it is just by the virtue of this that he could go to best of the places, study at best of the university and never had a materially struggling life. He did struggle with himself, changed careers & he cudgeled noted personalities and laureates of his time. He has penned his success and failures of his profession. He has been a lawyer, journalist, writer & a member of Rajya Sabha
His writing is lucid & very interesting. And definitely comes across as a pendent personality. I continued to get interested because of his political connections & anecdotes surround the same.
He writes about prominent events like partitions, operation Blue Star, emergency etc and other event where he was affected like Sanjay Gandhi's death, family dynamics of Gandhi family when Indira Gandhi was the PM, formation of Akali Dal, his Padma Vibhushan and giving up of the same.
A para that convinces me about his forward thinking 'Who wants virgins? Good looking women with experience, vivacity and brains make much better lovers and companions' :)
One of the concluding chapters has his take on religions & rituals. He has completely dismissed any activity that involves wastage of time including prayers. he incredulously disbands astrology & numerology too. He exhibits no prude when talking about the same and is a believer of a single life. He eloquently writes about death too.
This book has introduced me to lot of authors i had never heard off. Some of them are Anita Desai, Ruth Jhabvala, Nirad Chaudhuri, VS Naipaul etc. Some of his favorites are Aldous Huxleyan & Somerset Maugham
This one is a must read.
PS: Personally i feel I will never be able to write myself an autobiography!
