Sex,Scotch and ScholarshipIn this anthology, which comprises some of Khushwant Singh's best writing, you can look forward to some talk of sex, a little of Scotch and much Scholarship. The collection attempts to mirror the author's concerns and passions-his love of nature, his anguish over the situation in Punjab, his interest in religions of the world and his scholarly research on the one into which he was born, Sikhism. The highlight of this book, however, is the expansive, autobiographical opening piece written in Khushwant's characteristically candid style and perhaps the most complete self-portrait he has yet painted. |
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... Urdu and Punjabi to English. Though Allama Iqbal's Shikwa and Jawab-e-Shikwa are perhaps better known, for this anthology I have selected a masterfully written extract from Umrao Jaan Ada by Mirza Mohammad Hadi Ruswa which Khushwant ...
... Urdu and Punjabi to English. Though Allama Iqbal's Shikwa and Jawab-e-Shikwa are perhaps better known, for this anthology I have selected a masterfully written extract from Umrao Jaan Ada by Mirza Mohammad Hadi Ruswa which Khushwant ...
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... Urdu and Punjabi. I often receive abusive letters as well as love-letters from girls I have never met. I take a couple of hours' break to go for a swim in the Golf Club open-air pool. They let me in before others and I usually have it ...
... Urdu and Punjabi. I often receive abusive letters as well as love-letters from girls I have never met. I take a couple of hours' break to go for a swim in the Golf Club open-air pool. They let me in before others and I usually have it ...
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... Urdu prose. With him were two other Urdu writers, Tahseer and Imtiaz Ali Taj. They translated English classics into Urdu. Their rendering of Figaro and Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream were better enacted on the Lahore stage than ...
... Urdu prose. With him were two other Urdu writers, Tahseer and Imtiaz Ali Taj. They translated English classics into Urdu. Their rendering of Figaro and Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream were better enacted on the Lahore stage than ...
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