a short biography on khuswant singh
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Khushwant Singh (born Khushal Singh, 2 February 1915 – 20 March 2014) was an Indian author, lawyer, diplomat, journalist and politician. His experience in the 1947 Partition of India inspired him to write Train to Pakistan in 1956 (made into film in 1998), which became his most well-known novel.
Khushwant Singh is one of the most prominent Indian novelists and journalists. He is known for his humour and love of poetry. His comparisons of social and behavioural characteristics of Westerners and Indians was laced with his inimitable wit.
Khushwant Singh was born on February 2, 1915 in Punjab. His father was Sir Sobha Singh, a prominent civil contractor in Lutyens Delhi. He received his bachelor’s degree from a Government College in Lahore and was later qualified as a barrister from King’s College, London.
Singh’s weekly column, “With Malice towards One and All”, published in The Telegraph and several other newspapers in India, has been one of the most widely read columns in the country. Bold and brazen, endearingly enigmatic, the weekly column was like a breath of fresh air in an otherwise moribund world of desi english journalism.
In August 1947, days before the independence of India and Pakistan, Khushwant Singh, then a lawyer practising in the High Court in Lahore, drove to his family’s summer cottage in the foothills of the Himalayas.
From there he went on to Delhi, along 200 miles of strangely vacant road, until he came upon a jeep full of armed Sikhs who boasted that they had just massacred a village of Muslims. The same killing was occurring in what was about to become Pakistan, with Sikhs and Hindus among the million victims.