Vintage Sardar The (New Cover - R/E)

I will prove if I must that the pen is still mightier than the sword a Kalashnikov or a self-loading rifle. Khushwant Singh Khushwant Singh has spent a lifetime waging war against hypocrisy humbug and intolerance. It has made him India's most provocative and popular columnist. This new collection brings together his essays and articles on themes as varied as God the afterlife the banning of books caste prostitution crank calls and pets. His skills as a raconteur and journalist are used to brilliant effect in his sketches of Gandhi Raj Kapoor Vajpayee Phoolan Devi Zia-ul-Haq and the Dalai Lama as also in his travel pieces on Nagaland and France among other places. The Vintage Sardar ends with a frank and introspective autobiographical piece. 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.