NABRETIRE
OUR GREAT INDIANS - KUSHWANTH SINGH
KUSHWANTH SINGH LEAVES THE MEDIA AND LITERARY WORLD - IN DEEP SORROW
His last breath was @ 12.55 PM Thursday 20 March 2014.
NABRETIRE pays its TRIBUTE.
2014-15 KUSHWANTH SINGH'S CENTENARY YEAR.
OUR GREAT INDIANS - KUSHWANTH SINGH
KUSHWANTH SINGH LEAVES THE MEDIA AND LITERARY WORLD - IN DEEP SORROW
His last breath was @ 12.55 PM Thursday 20 March 2014.
NABRETIRE pays its TRIBUTE.
2014-15 KUSHWANTH SINGH'S CENTENARY YEAR.
Khushwant Singh
Khushwant Singh (born 2 February 1915, died
March 20, 2014) was an Indian novelist and journalist.
An Indo-Anglian novelist, Singh was 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 literary and news magazines, as well as two broadsheet newspapers,
through the 1970s and 1980s. He is a recipient of the Padma
Vibhushan, the second-highest civilian award in India.
Singh was born in Hadali District Khushab, Punjab (which now lies in Pakistan), in a Sikh family. His father, Sir Sobha Singh (builder), was a prominent builder in Lutyens'
Delhi. His uncle Sardar
Ujjal Singh (1895–1983) was Ex. Governor
of Punjab & Tamil Nadu.
He was educated at Modern School, New Delhi, Government College, Lahore, St. Stephen's College in Delhi and King's College London, before reading for the Bar at
the Inner Temple.[2][3]
Singh has edited Yojana,[4] an Indian government journal; The Illustrated Weekly of India, a newsweekly; and two major Indian newspapers, The National Herald and the Hindustan
Times. During
his tenure, The Illustrated Weekly became India's pre-eminent newsweekly, with its
circulation raising from 65,000 to 400000.[5] After working for nine years in the weekly, on 25 July
1978, a week before he was to retire, the management asked Singh to leave
"with immediate effect".[5] The new editor was installed the same day.[5] After Singh's departure, the weekly suffered a huge drop
in readership.[6]
From 1980 through 1986, Singh was a member of Rajya
Sabha, the upper house of the Indian parliament. He was awarded the Padma
Bhushan in 1974 for service to his
country. In 1984, he returned the award in protest against the
siege of the Golden Temple by the Indian Army.[7] In 2007, the Indian government awarded Khushwant Singh
the Padma Vibhushan.
Singh is said to wake up at 4 am each day and write his
columns by hand. His works range from political commentary and contemporary
satire to outstanding translations of Sikh religious texts and Urdu poetry.[citation needed] Despite the name, his column "With Malice Towards
One and All" regularly contains secular exhortations and messages of
peace. In addition, he is one of the last remaining writers to have personally
known most of the stalwart writers and poets of Urdu and Punjabi
languages, and profiles his recently deceased contemporaries in his
column.
As a public figure, Singh has been accused of favoring
the ruling Congress party, especially during the reign of Indira
Gandhi. He is derisively termed as an Establishment Liberal. Singh's
faith in the Indian political system has been shaken by events such as anti-Sikh
riots that followed Indira Gandhi's
assassination, in which major Congress politicians are alleged to be involved.
But he has remained resolutely positive on the promise of Indian democracy[8] and worked via Citizen's Justice Committee floated by H. S. Phoolka who is a senior advocate of Delhi
High Court.
He is married to Kawal Malik and has a son, named Rahul
Singh, and a daughter, named Mala. Actress Amrita
Singh is the daughter of his brother
Daljit Singh and Rukhsana Sultana. He stays in "Sujan Singh Park",
near Khan Market New Delhi, Delhi's first apartment complex, built by his
father in 1945, and named after his grandfather.[9]
Khushwant Singh died in New Delhi at the age of 99 on
March 20, 2014.
·
Rockfeller Grant,1966
·
Padma Bhushan,
Government of India (1974)(He returned the decoration in 1984 in protest
against the Union government's siege of the Golden Temple, Amritsar)
·
Honest Man of the Year, Sulabh
International (2000)
·
Punjab
Rattan Award, The Government of Punjab (2006)
·
Padma Vibhushan,
Government of India (2007)
·
Sahitya academy fellowship
award by Sahitya academy of India
(2010)
·
‘All-India
Minorities Forum Annual Fellowship Award’ by Uttar
Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh
Yadav (2012)
kushwant singh passes away on 20th
march 2014
Book
·
The History of Sikhs, 1953
·
Train
to Pakistan, 1956
·
I Shall Not Hear the
Nightingale, 1959
·
The Sikhs Today, 1959
·
A History of the Sikhs, 1963[10]
·
A History of the Sikhs, 1966 (2nd edition)[11]
·
Black Jasmine, 1971
·
Tragedy of Punjab, 1984
·
Delhi: A Novel, 1990
·
Sex, Scotch and Scholarship: Selected Writings, 1992
·
Not a Nice Man to Know: The Best of Khushwant Singh, 1993
·
We Indians, 1993
·
Women and Men in My Life, 1995
·
Uncertain Liaisons; Sex, Strife and Togetherness in Urban India, 1995
·
Declaring Love in Four Languages, by Khushwant Singh and Sharda Kaushik, 1997
·
The Company of Women, 1999
·
Truth, Love and a Little Malice (an autobiography), 2002
·
The End of India, 2003
·
Burial at the Sea, 2004
·
Paradise and Other Stories, 2004
·
A History of the Sikhs: 1469-1838, 2004[12]
·
Death at My Doorstep, 2005
·
A History of the Sikhs: 1839-2004, 2005[13]
·
The Illustrated History of the Sikhs, 2006
·
Why I Supported the Emergency: Essays and Profiles, 2009
·
The Sunset Club, 2010
·
Agnostic Khushwant Singh, There is no GOD, 2012
·
The Good, the Bad and the Ridiculous, 2013 (Co-authored with Humra Qureshi)
Short story collections
·
The Mark of Vishnu and Other Stories. London, Saturn Press, 1950.
·
The Voice of God and Other Stories. Bombay, Jaico, 1957.
·
A Bride for the Sahib and Other Stories. New Delhi, Hind, 1967.
·
Black Jasmine. Bombay, Jaico, 1971
·
The Collected Stories. N.p., Ravi Dayal, 1989.
·
The Portrait of a Lady
·
The Strain
·
Success Mantra
·
A Love Affair In London
Play
Television Documentary: Third World—Free Press (also
presenter; Third Eye series), 1982 (UK).[clarification needed][citation needed]
Karma,
a short story by Khushwant Singh
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