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| Lalupate*Joban |
Posted
on 19-Mar-04 12:31 PM
Excerpt:
http://www.outlookindia.com/full.asp?fodname=20040322&fname=Book+Extract+%28F%29&sid=1&pn=1
The vodka-swilling sardar has not lost his touch yet!
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| Biswo |
Posted
on 19-Mar-04 03:24 PM
I read Khushwant's New Delhi and one another book(I forgot the name now). I somehow feel Mr Singh is a sick person, and is over obsessed with sex.
He should write jokes only for which he is proficient.
oohi:
"sick of the panderers of sex who corrupt our children"
Biswo
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| hyaterica |
Posted
on 19-Mar-04 04:22 PM
okay i read the whole thing...but i still don't get who Bharati is and who Nair is. Are we talking about a father-daughter affair here?
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| noname |
Posted
on 19-Mar-04 05:03 PM
Biswo very strong objection there !:)
Regarding Khuswant singh, I remember one anecdote mentioned in some Indian paper long back ! He had once quipped that Nargish has slept in his bed ! What actually had happened was Nargish (and most probably Sunil Dutta too) spent one night at his house !
Dilli Raman Regmi in a speech given to some students once mentioned that he was fond of K.Sing's approah to life. According to him, secret of K.'s active life even at that age is because he always keeps company with young persons. Old persons talk about death and end, Youngs, on the other hand, talk about life and future.
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| Biswo |
Posted
on 19-Mar-04 07:21 PM
noname:
People are free to think about Khushwant's contribution. To me, it is just sex, sex, and sex, canned sometimes in Horlicks's bottle, sometimes in San Miguel's: without any particular variety. Worse thing is unlike other panderers, the old man actually thinks he is a literary person, and what he writes is literature.
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| garibjanata |
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on 20-Mar-04 09:45 AM
'Fascism, obscurantism dominate today's India'
Well-known writer Khushwant Singh's return to fiction writing, after a break of five years, was marked by the launch of his latest book, Burial at Sea, at a littering ceremony in Delhi by Rajmata of Jaipur Maharani Gayatri Devi.
The high-profile event was attended by the city's who's who with Joint Secretary, External Affairs Navtej Sarna, painter and writer Bulbul Sharma, actor and socialite Sadia Dehlavi and the famous Kuchipudi exponents Raja and Kaushalya Reddy, among other prominent faces at the event.
Published by Penguin India Ltd, the 198-page slim volume covers territory Khushwant Singh knows best - sex, religion and politics. The central character of the book, Victor Jai Bhagwan, is a take-off on Pandit Nehru, as the author himself says. It highlights Victor's turbulent relationship with a a tantrik woman who initiated him 'into the pleasures of unbridled sexuality' but was also the reason for his downfall.
Speaking at the book launch, the author took the opportunity to hit out at fascism and obscurantism which he said is 'turning India from a modern, progressive nation into an obscurantist country.'
In the name of Indian culture, he said, people are taking the liberty of banning authors, burning books and smashing up cinema halls in protest against Valentines Day. "If this is not fascism, I don't know what is," he emphatically stated.
Deploring the fact that the country is being divided along religious lines, Khushwant Singh said Iqbal's immortal line 'Mazhab Nahin Sikhata Aapas Mein Bair Rakhna' has now taken on a new colour and actually means: 'Mazhab Hi Sikhata Aapas Mein Bair Rakhna.'
It was vintage Khuswantspeak when the author said: 'People often call me a dirty old man. There is some element of truth in it. I am a dirty old man but it is my mind that is dirty and it is so because I use it a lot and when you use something frequently, it does gather dirt.
'Oscar Wilde was also called a dirty man and there is some truth in it. I would like to be remembered in the manner he once said:
I hope it is said
When I am dead
Though his deeds were scarlet
His books were read'
(Report by Vijaya Sharma)
http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/specials/khushwantsingh/launch.html
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