This nonagenarian journalist cum writer is candid most of the times. That is the beauty of his writings. But sometimes, he is nothing but a mean person chasing materialistic pursuits. His greatest contribution to the Indian history is not his two volume History of Sikhs but his novel Delhi, giving a glimpse of the history of Delhi. He has left no marks as an editor though he edited the Illustrated Weekly of India and The Hindustan Times. That is why he is not bracketed with great journalists such as M. Chalapati Rao, S. Mulgaonkar and Sham Lal. However, his column remains a most popular column in India. Even in the role of a journalist such as a news story on Phoolen Devi for The New York Times, he laced his observations with sex, conveniently forgetting the golden rule of journalism that facts are sacred.

Firstly, I appreciate Rajbir’s efforts to talk to the aged man. I had earlier commented that I find Mr. Khushwant Singh over rated. Probably I was wrong, because, in him, now I see a sardonic humour, when he makes fun of something, it is more than just the crude part of it.. He means to say a lot more than that.

I really respect him now for saying religion is India biggest enemy. I have always believed religion is India’s and the mankind’s biggest enemy. Probably he feels too disgusted to comment on people who are so into something that no one knows about but claim to know, what the hell, we don’t even know God exists and we fight over religions.

God, Religion is a human construct, to be able to face the world courageously. Religion is a persona behind which people hide. And spirituality is a state of mind. There is no more or no less to any of these three terms. I wait for the day when religions are discouraged at schools and aim at a non religious, egalitarian, humane society. If you are religious, it is difficult to be humanistic.

And the sex and booze part which he is so associated with, he cut it short saying he is too old to even react to such stimuli. I must say this man is pretty cool.....

If you juxtapose the eucnuch’s character in Khushwant’s novel ’Delhi’ with that of the ’city’ you will find a masterly tactis used by the writer in conveying the ’exploitation’ of both–the character and the city for ages.And here lies the beauty of the narration when you would tend to belive that his description is not all ’porn’ but ’sacred’ too like facts as rightly observed by Anil Maheshwari.
And for Jayant Cavale, I should say ’thanks you changed your opinion about the man’–but then he can surprisse you–I may put one more video soon .

Can anyone tell me why everyone loves to hate Khushwant Singh ? The courage with which he stood against the terrorists in Punjab and the conviction that he has in certain aspects of life including following a punishing tight schedule even at this ripe age is credit worthy. He writes about ’dirty’ things because everyone howsoever holier than thou loves to read them.

Why one should love to hate a man who was the most steadfast supporter of Mrs. Indira Gandhi and his younger son Sanjay Gandhi during the dark days of Emergency, as per the description by the Times London. Little wonder, he was awarded with the nominated membership of the Rajya Sabha. When he fell from the grace in the court of Mrs. Indira Gandhi as he preferred to take sides with the widow of her youngest son and his sex-year term came to an end, he could be seen roaming in Chandigarh begging for another term, this time with the help of Akalis. He is a chameleon. The only solace we can draw from the fact that he authored an excellent book ”Delhi”, Ravi Dayal was his son-in-law and Rahul Singh is his son.