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Khushwant Singh was an Indian author, lawyer, journalist, diplomat, and politician known for his provocative, honest, and witty writing. Singh was born in Hadali, British India (now present day Pakistan) in 1915. His exact day of birth is unknown, as births and deaths weren’t recorded in his time, but February 2nd, a date his father made up, is commonly used. Singh came from a wealthy and well-connected Sikh family. His father was a builder and contractor, and his uncle was a former governor of Punjab.
In 1920 Singh started school at the Delhi Modern School and continued there until 1930, after which he went to Government College in Lahore, St. Stephen’s College in Delhi, and then King’s College London. While studying law at King’s College, he met his future wife, Kawal Malik. He began formally practicing law in 1939, and worked at the Lahore Court for eight years until the Partition of India in 1947. The splitt
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Khushwant Singh
Indian author, lawyer, diplomat, journalist and politician (1915–2014)
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Khushwant Singh receiving the National Amity Award, in New Delhi on September 26, 2008 | |
| Born | Khushal Singh (1915-02-02)2 February 1915 Hadali, Punjab Province, British India (now in Punjab, Pakistan) |
| Died | 20 March 2014(2014-03-20) (aged 99) New Delhi, India |
| Occupation | Lawyer, journalist, diplomat, writer, politician |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Alma mater | Government College, Lahore (B.A.) University of London (LL.B.) |
| Notable works | The History of Sikhs Train to Pakistan Delhi: A Novel The Company of Women Truth, Love and a Little Malice: An Autobiography With Malice towards One and All Why I Supported the Emergency: Essays and Profiles Khushwantnama, The Lessons of My Life Punjab, Punjabis & Punjabiyat: Reflections on a Land and its People The Mark of Vishnu and Other Stories The Portrait of a Lady |
| Notable awards | Rockefeller Grant Padma • Khushwant SinghCall 1939, Inner TempleKhushwant Singh was born into an affluent Sikh family in the Punjab, just a few years after the decision was announced to move the capital of the British regel from Calcutta to Delhi. With preparations taking place to build a new capital city, his father, who worked in construction, moved to Delhi with most of the family, while Khushwant remained in the by of Hadali with his grandmother. As was anpassad in his village, there was no record of his actual birthday, but Khushwant was later informed that he was born in the summer months, a year into the First World War. He gave han själv the birthday 15 August 1915. Khushwant and his grandmother eventually joined the rest of the family in Delhi, where he was enrolled in Modern School - the first private and coeducational school established in the city (although, according to Khushwant, with so few girls in the school, it was co-ed in name only.) It took Khushwant some time to adapt to city life a |