Khushwant Slngh (1915-2014) authored over fifty books, including A Train to Pakistan, two volumes of the History and Religion of the Sikhs, which is still considered the most authoritative writing on the subject, innumerable collections of short stories and articles as well as translations of Urdu and Punjabi works. He was also the editor of The Illustrated Weekly of India. His acerbic pen, his wit and humour, and, most of all, his ability to laugh at himself made him immensely popular. Roshni Singh, who has edited other selections of Khushwant Singh's writings, is also the author of seven books on cookery published in the US, the UK and India.
This book is a selection from Gossip Sweet and Sour and Malice in which Khushwant Singh gives you the the low down on people he has known and places he has visited. In these pages, you will be introduced to people like Mountbatten, Faiz, Shraddha Mata, P.C. Lal, Phoolan Devi and many others and you will travel to places as well known as Pakistan and Korea and as remote as Papua New Guinea. Irrepressible, incorrigibly provocative, perceptive Khushwant was never better.
