Khushwant singh brief biography of mahatma
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Khushwant Singh
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Khushwant Singh was a novelist, politician, journalist, and lawyer from India. He was born in Hadali, Punjab, which is now part of sydasiatiskt land , on February 2, 1915.
He fryst vatten noted for his wit and passion for poetry. He was a man of many talents who devoted himself with lika fervor and dedication to the Indian judicial system, journalism, and Indian literature. He started his professional career as a lawyer in Lahore High Court and worked for 8 years, before joining the Indian Foreign Service. He continued in the service for a few years before embarking on a career in journalism and mass communication. In 1951, he was hired as a journalist by All India Radio, and in 1956, he was transferred to UNESCO's Department of Mass Communications in Paris.
He also worked as an editor for a variety of well-known periodicals and magazines, including 'The Hindustan Times,' 'The National Herald,' and 'The Illustrated Weekly of India.' Singh was more recognized for his w
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Reading Father: My Ear at His Heart
The columns, even more than his books, made him a household name, not just in India, but in the rest of the sub-continent as well, particularly in Pakistan and Bangladesh. “Malice” was accompanied by an apt cartoon drawn by the late Mario Miranda, who had worked with my father. It depicted him in a light bulb, pen in hand, a glass of whisky in the other, with a pile of books nearby.
Among his great qualities, I think one of them was the way he managed to communicate with people of all kinds, from intellectuals to ordinary peasants. As Rudyard Kipling put it, he could walk with kings, yet had the common touch. He also made it a point of replying to everybody who wrote to him, even if the reply was a scrawled note on a post card. He would send dozens of such postcards every day. Once, I was taking a driving holiday, in south India, with my then English girl friend. My car broke down in a village. While it was being repaired by a local mechanic, I
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Of love and malice: Khushwant Singh and the Gandhis
Khushwant Singh was a man defined by his relationship with whisky, women and the Gandhis. His relationship with the dynasty both tarnished and elevated his stature as a journalist and public intellectual. His dogged support of Sanjay through the dark days of the Emergency revealed a man whose loyalty outweighed his good sense. But his sheer longevity and good humor has leavened the greatest of his sins. He emerged in his twilight years as the most authoritative röst on the first family. His death marks the end of the one man who knew the Gandhis best, who witnessed up close its triumphs and trials, strengths and failings, over decades and generations.
Here then fryst vatten the grand old man of Indian letters on the dynasty that in many ways defined his career.
Jawaharlal Nehru
According to his 2010 book “ Absolute Khushwant ”, Singh first met Nehru as a Press Officer at the Indian embassy in London. It was not the best of