Essay Politics

Absolute Khushwant

Those I Respect And Admire

01 September 2010
A undated family portrait of the Gandhis: Left to Right (front): Sonia, Rahul, Indira, Priyanka and Maneka. Left to Right (back) Rajiv and Sanjay.
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A undated family portrait of the Gandhis: Left to Right (front): Sonia, Rahul, Indira, Priyanka and Maneka. Left to Right (back) Rajiv and Sanjay.
DELHI PRESS ARCHIVES

The following chapters are excerpted from

Absolute Khushwant: The Low-Down on Life, Death & Most Things In-Between

by KHUSHWANT SINGH (with Humra Quraishi)

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Khushwant Singh Khushwant Singh was a prominent Indian novelist and journalist, and the author of Train to Pakistan, I Shall Not Hear the Nightingale, Delhi, The Company of Women and Burial at Sea.

Keywords: Manmohan Singh Indira Gandhi Jawaharlal Nehru Sonia Gandhi Jinnah Khushwant Singh secularism Krishna Menon Lady Mountbatten Saifuddin Kichlew Durga Maneka Gandhi Blue Star Sanjay Gandhi Varun Gandhi Maruti
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