Big book of Malice, Khushwant Singh
Big book of Malice, Khushwant Singh
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Big book of Malice

Author: Khushwant Singh

Narrator: Faraz Khan

Unabridged: 6 hr 5 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/29/2020


Synopsis

"Good people can be crashing bores. Evil men who combine evil-doing with drunkenness, debauchery and making illicit money make more interesting characters because they pack their lives with action. They do what most of us would like to do but do not have the guts to.'-Khushwant SinghMalice. The word is synonymous with Khushwant Singh; his pen has spared no one. For over four decades as India's most widely read columnist, he has commented on just about everything: religion, politics, our future, our past, prohibition, impotency, presidents, politicians, cricket, dog-haters, astrologers, the banning of books, the secret of 1ongevity ... the list is endless.Candid to the point of being outrageous, Khushwant Singh makes both his reader and subject wince. He writes unabashedly on nose picking, wife bashing, bribing journalists, gender wars and the desires of an octogenarian; on Nehru and Edwina, Lalu, Bal Thackeray, Chandraswami and Sonia Gandhi, among host of others.Khushwant Singh's Big Book of Malice brings together some of his nastiest and most irreverent pieces. Witty, sharp and brutally honest, this collection is certain to delight and provoke readers of all ages."

About The Author

Khushwant Singh is Indias best known writer and columnist. He has been founder editor of Yojana and editor of the Illustrated Weekly of India, the National Herald and the Hindustan Times. He is the author of classics such as Train to Pakistan, I Shall Not Hear the Nightingale and Delhi. His latest novel, The Sunset Club, written when he was 95, was published by Penguin Books in 2010. His nonfiction includes the classic two volume A History of the Sikhs, a number of translations and works on Sikh religion and culture, Delhi, nature, current affairs and Urdu poetry. His autobiography, Truth, Love and a Little Malice, was published by Penguin Books in 2002.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Pallavi on May 10, 2012

A collection of posts/editorials/remarks that the author must have written in the past to the 2000's. It is like a funny refresher of the events that happened then. We can see the ideas and views of Mr. Singh change as the world and politics around him changed. Must read is all I can say.......more

Goodreads review by Mrinal on October 11, 2010

A book straight from his heart. A good collection of incidents from 1995 till 2000 .Like the fact that you can start reading from anywhere :)......more

Goodreads review by Dr.J.G. on February 05, 2016

In one place Khushwant Singh seems plaintive in complaining about how his freedom to express his views was impinged upon by Bengal being furious about his very negative views about Bengal in general and their specifically having produced no great geniuses, and even more specifically stating that Tag......more

Goodreads review by Jane on February 13, 2019

I have always liked Khushwant Singh's writing and this book being short editorials is easy reading too. An interesting view back into late 1990s India. Some things have changed but much is still the same. The author is liberal and mainly measured in his thoughts on all subjects except birth control......more

Goodreads review by Rupin on April 28, 2022

Grouses of an old man The political grousing was a put off......more