Khushwant Singh dies at 99.

[V.Balasubramani]

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Khushwant Singh dies at 99.

NewDelhi: Noted writer and journalist Khushwant Singh passed away today. He was99. Singh is one of India's best-known writers and columnists.

Born on 2February 1915 in Hadali, now in Pakistan's Punjab, he was the founder-editor ofYojana and editor of the Illustrated Weekly of India, The National Herald andHindustan Times. He wrote classics like 'Train to Pakistan', 'I Shall Not Hearthe Nightingale' and 'Delhi'


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[vgane]

Praveen,

There is another post started later on the same topic..Can you combine the same with this

 

[mskmoorthy]

New Tork Times Obituary

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/21/w...cative-indian-journalist-dies-at-99.html?_r=0

Quotations from the above link:

In that sense, he was a nationalist. But he was also one of his country’s most dogged critics.

“Why am I an Indian?” he asked in an essay. “I did not have any choice: I was born one. If the good Lord had consulted me on the subject I might have chosen a country more affluent, less crowded, less censorious in matters of food and drink, unconcerned with personal equations and free of religious bigotry.”

Book News: Khushwant Singh, Who Wrote Of India's Bloody Partition, Dies : The Two-Way : NPR
He wrote his own eiptah (as quoted in the above link)

• A prolific obituarist, Singh wrote his own epitaph before he died:

"Here lies one who spared neither man nor God
Waste not your tears on him, he was a sod
Writing nasty things he regarded as great fun
Thank the Lord he is dead, this son of a gun."

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[B.Krishnamurthy]

Late Mr.Kushwant Singh was a stalwart in Journalism. He was very Bold in expressing his views.
When I was in New Delhi I was a regular reader of his weekly column in "The Hindustan Times".
At the ripe age of 98,he advocated 'South Indian food' for aged people.
He will be remembered in India forever.

 

[talwan]

The man KS who increased the circulation of Illustrated weekly from some 40k to 4.5 lakhs. Ofcourse he made use of 'Glamour' at that period.He is a pioneer in this regard.
His sens of humar is highly appreciated.
Alwan