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. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.Included here are the classics 'The Train to Pakistan' that describes the tragedy of Partition through the love story of a Sikh dacoit and a Muslim girl, 'I Shall Not Hear the Nightingale', which deals with the conflict in a prosperous Sikh family of Punjab in the 1940s; and the best-selling 'Delhi' , a vast, erotic, irreverent magnum opus centred on the Indian capital.
