From The Back Cover Of 'Truth, Love And A Little Malice' By Khushwant Singh

Born in 1915 in pre-Partition Punjab, Khushwant Singh.

India's most widely read and controversial writer witness to all the major events in modern Indian history ­Independence and Partition to the Emergency and Blue Star-and has known many of the figures who have shaped it. With clarity and candour, he writes of leaders like Nehru Indira Gandhi, the terrorist Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, the talented and scandalous painter Amrita Shergil, and everyday people wh became butchers during Partition. Writing of his own life, too, he remains unflinchingly forthright. He records his professional triumphs and failures as a lawyer, journalist, writer an Member of Parliament; the comforts and disappointments in his marriage of over sixty years; his first, awkward sexual encounter: his phobia of ghosts and his fascination with death; the friend who betrayed him, and also those whom he failed.

About The Author Of 'Truth, Love And A Little Malice'

Khushwant Singh was born in 1915 in Hadali, Punjab. He was educated at Government College, Lahore and at King's College and the Inner Temple in London. He practised at the Lahore High Court for several years before joining the Indian Ministry of External Affairs in 1947. He was sent on diplomatic postings to Canada and London and later went to Paris with UNESCO. He began a distinguished career as a journalist with All India Radio in 1951. Since then he has been founder-editor of Yojana, and editor of Illustrated Weekly of India, National Herald and Hindustan Times. Today he is India's best-known columnist and journalist.