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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... hand as Indira Gandhi ruled India. Unlike the mod girls of today who bob their hair, wear T-shirts, jeans and speak chichi Hindish but when it comes to being married, tamely surrender their right to choose husbands to their parents, my ...
... hand as Indira Gandhi ruled India. Unlike the mod girls of today who bob their hair, wear T-shirts, jeans and speak chichi Hindish but when it comes to being married, tamely surrender their right to choose husbands to their parents, my ...
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... hand, when our dog Simba (he was really a member of the family) fell ill, she sat all night stroking him. When he died at the ripe old age of fourteen (ninety by human reckoning), she was heartbroken. The rigid discipline of time ...
... hand, when our dog Simba (he was really a member of the family) fell ill, she sat all night stroking him. When he died at the ripe old age of fourteen (ninety by human reckoning), she was heartbroken. The rigid discipline of time ...
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... hand we devised our own means of cleaning ourselves and having fun at the same time. We sat in a line and at a given signal, propelled ourselves forward by our hands as fast as we could. By the end of the race our bottoms were cleaned ...
... hand we devised our own means of cleaning ourselves and having fun at the same time. We sat in a line and at a given signal, propelled ourselves forward by our hands as fast as we could. By the end of the race our bottoms were cleaned ...
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... hands. The dinner gong came to my rescue. I refused to take her back to my room and walked her down to the tube station. For the next three days I avoided her by keeping away from the pension till late hours of the night. In her ...
... hands. The dinner gong came to my rescue. I refused to take her back to my room and walked her down to the tube station. For the next three days I avoided her by keeping away from the pension till late hours of the night. In her ...
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