: Khushwant Singh As Portrayed By His Son #WorldNEWSAll Khushwant Singh became a journalist five years after his son had established himself as a journalist. Recently, I reviewed a book thirty years

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Khushwant Singh As Portrayed By His Son #WorldNEWSAll
Khushwant Singh became a journalist five years after his son had established himself as a journalist.
Recently, I reviewed a book thirty years after it was published. It happened to be its 103rd edition. Many of my friends appreciated it. That emboldens me to review a book that has been on my bookshelf for the last 19 years.

I did not review it at that time as Khushwant Singh: In the Name of the Father by Rahul Singh (Roli Books, Pages 144, Rs 500) was ably reviewed by my colleague Roopinder Singh in The Tribune where I worked those days.
He had a better claim to review the book as he belonged to an illustrious family of Sikh scholars and his own picture appeared in the book standing behind a girl child who greets Khushwant Singh at Kasauli.
I did not even mention my claim to review the book, for it might sound preposterous. One of my duties at The Hindustan Times in Delhi was to “edit” Khushwant Singh’s weekly column With Malice to One and All. Not that his column needed editing!
One advantage I had was that I was the first to read his column after Laxman Das transferred his illegible, handwritten manuscript into a typewritten text.

Though I enjoyed reading his column, I felt that he was wasting his time as he could have concentrated on his literary work.
I read a couple of times his novel, Train to Pakistan, which is absolutely free from communal bias because he never wore any religiously-coloured glass.
When I got a job in The Tribune and readied myself to live in Chandigarh, the first thing I did was to buy and read his two-volume history of The Sikhs.
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