India's best known #Writer, #Journalist and Satirist #Khushwant Singh is no more.. He breath his last today. He was 99. For more information on great personalities visit us at www.smilyo.com

Born in Punjab’s Hadali village (now in Pakistan) in 1915, Khushwant Singh has acquired an iconic stature: he is, arguably, India’s best-known and most widely read author, columnist and journalist. He was founder-editor of Yojana, and editor of The Illustrated Weekly of India, National Herald and the Hindustan Times. His first book, The Mark of...

"Freedom is for the educated people who fought for it. We were slaves of the English, now we will be slaves of the educated Indians - or the Pakistanis" The bloody violence sweeping India after the partition has not yet touched Mano Majro, a small village of Muslims and Sikhs, on the India-Pakistan border. But in the summer of 1947, the murder of a Hindu moneylender and the arrival of a train full of dead Sikhs set of a tragic chain of events. This novel gives a vivid account of the…

Khushwant Singh

Khushwant Singh… The first mention of this author for many would have been from the NCERT book of class 11 – ‘The Portrait of a Lady’ where the author gave the picture perfect portrayal of his grandmother. Until that time I had no idea about the nature of fame he had. It’s just lately… Continue reading RIP Khushwant Singh

Life at 90: Khushwant Singh

By Upinder Randhawa. Noted writer and journalist Khushwant Singh Ji passed away today. He was 99. Singh was best known for his trenchant secularism, his humour, and an abiding love for poetry. Born on February 2, 1915 in Punjab’s at Hadali in then-united Punjab’s Hadali district (now in Pakistan) Khushwant Singh has written over […]