Author
Khushwant Singh
One of India's most celebrated writer-journalists; Padma Vibhushan awardee
Partition-era Indian literatureKnown for
Khushwant Singh was India’s best-known writer and columnist. He was founder-editor of Yojana and editor of The Illustrated Weekly of India, the National Herald and Hindustan Times. He was a member of Parliament from 1980 to 1986. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 1974 but returned the decoration in 19984 in protest against the storming of the Golden Temple in Amritsar by the Indian Army. In 2007 he was awarded the Padma Vibhushan.
He passed away in 2014 at the age of ninety-nine.
Born1915 · Hadali, British India (now Pakistan)
Notable works
Train To PakistanDelhi: A NovelA History of the Sikhs
HonoursPadma Vibhushan (2007)
Here lies one who spared neither man nor God; waste not your tears on him, he was a sod.— His self-composed epitaph, published in Death at My Doorstep
