In my view, Khushwant Singh’s talent has lain not in deep or revolutionary thinking, but in the writing of his weekly columns and in a keen sense of what is timely, interesting, and important to talk about. He started doing this in the 1960s, and kept it up for thirty or more years, leaving a sizeable body of work.
Amardeep Singh at Sepia Mutiny profiles Khushwant Singh’s journalism.
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Aug 6th, 2006 at 1:14 am | #
Amardeep has written well but I would differ with him on Delhi, which is a wonderful novel. It can’t be dismissed so easily. Delhi is a very important work and despite the vulgar tone in certain chapters, it stands out as one of the best novels written in post-Indendent India.