‘I would like to be remembered as someone who made people smile.’
One of the great icons of our time, Khushwant Singh, 95, is a man of
contradictions. An agnostic who’s well-versed in the holy scriptures; a vocal
champion of free speech who supported the Emergency; a ‘dirty old man’ who sees
‘the world in a grain of sand and beauty in a wild flower’.
Born in 1915 in pre-Partition Punjab, Khushwant Singh has been witness to almost
all the major events in modern Indian history and has known most of the figures
who have shaped it. In a career spanning over six