Khushwant Singh was a member of Parliament from 1980 to 1986. His autobiography, Truth, Love and a Little Malice, was published by Penguin Books in 2002. His non-fiction includes the classic two-volume A History of the Sikhs, a number of translations and works on Sikh religion and culture, Delhi, nature, current affairs and Urdu poetry. His last novel, The Sunset Club, written when he was ninety-five, was published by Penguin Books in 2010. He authored classics such as Train to Pakistan, I Shall Not Hear the Nightingale (retitled as The Lost Victory) and Delhi. He was founder-editor of Yojana and editor of the Illustrated Weekly of India, the National Herald and Hindustan Times. Khushwant Singh was India’s best-known writer and columnist. Khushwant Singh’s Book of Unforgettable Women Singh KhushwantContents About the Author The Secret Life of Mohan Kumar One: A New Beginning Two: Dhanno Three: Letter From Rewari Four: Sarojini Five: After Sarojini The Memoirs of Mohan Kumar Six: I, Mohan Kumar Seven: Jessica Browne Eight: Yasmeen Nine: Homecoming Ten: Getting Married Eleven: Honeymoon in the Shivaliks Twelve: Mary Joseph Thirteen: How the Marriage Died Fourteen: Molly Gomes Fifteen: Susanthika The Last Days of Mohan Kumar Sixteen: A Bai in Bombay Seventeen: A Fatal Illness Eighteen: The Death of Mohan Kumar Author’s Note Acknowledgements Follow Penguin Copyright The lively Martha Stack (-Black Jasmine’), Lady Mohan Lal (-Karma’), Jean Memsahib (-The Memsahib of Mandla’), the hijra-whore Bhagmati (Delhi), the insatiable Champak (I Shall Not Hear The Nightingale), dark-eyed Nooran (Train to Pakistan) and the free-spirited Molly Gomes (The Company of Women) are only a few of Khushwant Singh’s larger-than-life characters who are sure to entertain and amuse the reader. The book also includes some of the women Khushwant Singh has conjured up in the numerous stories and novels he has written over sixty years. From Ghayoorunnisa Hafeez, the girl who forever changed his attitude towards Muslims, to his wife, Kaval Malik, who is allergic to media publicity from his old grandmother to the controversial artist Amrita Shergil from Mother Teresa to Phoolan Devi, Khushwant Singh paints colourful and true-to-life portraits of the women he has known, loved, despised, admired, and lived with. In Khushwant Singh’s Book of Unforgettable Women, India’s most widely-read and irreverent author and columnist profiles some of many women in his life. “Though I am nothing to look at, it is women who have sought my company more than I have sought theirs.” ‘Khushwant Singh’
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