Khushwant Singh: The Legend Lives On
Author: Rahul Singh Category: General ISBN: 9789381398883 Binding: Paperback Dimensions: 199 x 129 mm Number of Pages: 220
Prolific writer. Acerbic critic. Editor nonpareil. Trenchant humourist. Connoisseur of single malt. Lover of life, words, women, and all things beautiful.
Here was a man.
‘You know that I am 99 years old.’ I replied: ‘May my years be added to yours.’ He looked up at me withthe softest expression, and said: ‘No, but may you live as long as I have.’ I held his hand, the hand that had spent a lifetime writing books and inimitable articles, and kissed it. He brushed his cheek with mine. Both of us knew that it was a farewell. I left and stood on the gravel outside …
– Fakir Syed Aijazuddin
… the Patiala Peg of publishing is no more! But we will continue to raise our glasses and thank him for liberating us from our idiotic, hypocritical, fake, humourless lives … for making us laugh at ourselves … for ridding us of quaint sexual hang-ups … for chucking old rules into the waste basket … for caring a damn! Jeena isi ka naam hai!
– Shobhaa Dé
Rahul Singh
Rahul Singh, the son Khushwant Singh, is a writer and journalist. Educated in St Stephen’s, Delhi University and King’s College, Cambridge, he began his career as the youngest ever Assistant Editor with the Times of India. Rahul is associated with three NGOs connected with reproductive health and literacy. He splits his time between Mumbai, Delhi, Kasauli and Goa.