works and achievement of khushwant singh ? in atleast 200 words.
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Khushwant Singh was an Indian author, lawyer, journalist, diplomat, and politician known for his provocative, honest, and witty writing. Singh was born in Hadali, British India (now present day Pakistan) in 1915. His exact day of birth is unknown, as births and deaths weren’t recorded in his time, but February 2nd, a date his father made up, is commonly used. Singh came from a wealthy and well-connected Sikh family. His father was a builder and contractor, and his uncle was a former governor of Punjab.
In 1920 Singh started school at the Delhi Modern School and continued there until 1930, after which he went to Government College in Lahore, St. Stephen’s College in Delhi, and then King’s College London. While studying law at King’s College, he met his future wife, Kawal Malik. He began formally practicing law in 1939, and worked at the Lahore Court for eight years until the Partition of India in 1947. The splitting of the Indian subcontinent into India and Pakistan led Singh to relocate his family to Delhi. Once there, he joined the Indian Foreign Service for the newly independent country, and began his career as a diplomat.
Singh’s experiences during and after the Partition of India provided the material for his most celebrated and famous work, Train to Pakistan. He began writing short stories while doing diplomatic work in London and Ottawa, Canada, and his first work, The Mark of Vishnu and Other Stories, was published in 1950 in London. Train to Pakistan wouldn’t come until later, in 1956. In addition to writing his own fiction and nonfiction works, Singh also translated several Urdu language fiction and Sikh scripture texts into English.