About
Childhood name of Khushwant Singh was Khushal Singh, born on 2 February 1915 in Punjab (now in Pakistan) and educated in St. Stephen’s College, Delhi and King’s College London.
Khushwant Singh was married to Kanwal Malik, they had a son, named Rahul Singh and daughter name Mala. He worked as lawyer for 8 years in Lahore, after that he joined Indian Foreign Service for Independence of India from British Empire in 1947.
Khushwant Singh was awarded with Padma Bhushan (1974) and Padma Vibhushan (2007), the second highest civilian award in India
Khushwant Singh wan an Indian author, politician, journalist. His novel Train to Pakistan was inspired from his experience from Partition of India (1956), which became very famous and later in 1998 a film was also made on his novel. He was died on 20 March 2014 at his Delhi residence, at the age of 99.
Quotes by Khushwant Singh
- The Doer must do only when the receiver is ready to receive. Otherwise, the act is wasted.
- Morality is a matter of money. Poor people cannot afford to have morals. So they have religion.
- We also knew that it was in the nature of an empty stomach to produce illusions of grandeur.
- When the world is itself draped in the mantle of night, the mirror of the mind is like the sky in which thoughts twinkle like stars.
- We are of the mysterious East. No proof, just faith . No reason, just faith.
- There is no wine in the world as heady as applause: and it has the same effect. Temporary subdues anxiety and restore confidence.
- Freedom is for the educated people who fought for it. We are the slaves of the English, now we will be slaves of the educated Indians or the Pakistanis.
- His mind was like the delicate spring of a watch, which quivers for several hours after it has been touched.
- Under the circumstances the only honest answer an intelligent person can give to he question ‘Is there a God?’ is to say, ‘I don’t know.’
- Your principle should be to see everything and say nothing. The world changes so rapidly that if you want to get on you cannot afford to align yourself with any person or point of view.
