He went to study in England while trying to be a lawyer and in one of his books mentions his affair with his Indian school teacher and a few other liaisons including with a sex worker. His family were builders who built large parts of Delhi and were rich and his father was knighted. Khushwant Singh came from what is now Pakistan. Yet in his private he was a complex and complicated man whose words never fully expressed that he had lived a life without love in almost his entire married life. He even went to the Parliament apart from reinventing magazine journalism from the staid to the saucy. His work on the history of the Sikhs was a major contribution to knowledge making. He brought laughter and wit to many, showed how to write in simple language which earned him great popularity. He was India’s most read who also lifted the veil on matter of sexuality earning the title, “dirty old man”. One of the most well known, well loved men and writers of South Asia passed away at 99 who made a career telling the world what he thought of the world and himself.
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