Khushwant sinngh

a short summary of the life of MR.Khuswant Singh.

1. Taranpreet Kaur Class: + 1 (Arts) Subject : English M rs. Mankalwal duggal Submitted to - Submitted by - Khushwant Singh

2. I would like to express my special thanks of gratitude to my teacher Mrs. Mankalwal duggal as well as our principal Mrs. Mankalwal duggal who gave me the golden opportunity to do this wonderful project on the topic KHUSHWANT SINGH , which also helped me in doing a lot of Research and I came to know about so many new things I am really thankful to them. Secondly i would also like to thank my parents and friends who helped me a lot in finalizing this project within the limited time frame. Acknowledgment

3. Contents Khushwant Singh Early Life & Education Career Honor & Awards Books Written by Him Sardar Bahadur Sobha Singh Early Life Career

4. He entered Delhi Modern School in 1920 and studied there till 1930. There he met his future wife, Kanwal Malik, one year his junior. He studied Intermediate of Arts at  St. Stephen's College  in  Delhi  during 1930-1932. He pursued higher education at  Government College, Lahore , in 1932, and got his BA in 1934 by a " third-class degree ". Then he went to  King's College London  to study law, and was awarded an LL.B. from  University of London  in 1938. He was subsequently  called to the bar  at the London  Inner Temple . Khushwant Singh was born in  Hadali ,  Khushab District ,  Punjab  (which now lies in Pakistan), in a  Sikh  family. He was the younger son of  Sir Sobha Singh . his father simply made up 2 February 1915 for his school enrollment at  Modern School, New Delhi . But his grandmother Lakshmi Devi asserted that he was born in August, so he later set the date for himself as 15 August. Sobha Singh was a prominent builder in  Lutyens' Delhi . His uncle  Sardar Ujjal Singh  (1895–1983) was previously  Governor of Punjab  and  Tamil Nadu . His birth name, given by his grandmother, was Khushal Singh (meaning "Prosperous Lion"). He was called by a pet name "Shalee”. Early Life and Education

5. Khushwant Singh started his professional career as a practicing lawyer in 1939 at Lahore in Chamber of Manzoor Qadir and  Ijaz Husain Batalvi . He worked at Lahore Court for eight years where there are so many of his friends and fans including Akhtar Aly Kureshy Advocate and Raja Muhammad Arif Advocate. In 1947 he entered  Indian Foreign Service  for the newly independent India. He started as Information Officer of the Government of India in Toronto, Canada. He was Press Attaché and Public Officer for the Indian High Commission for four years in London and Ottawa. In 1951 he joined the All India Radio as a journalist. Between 1954 and 1956 he worked in Department of Mass Communication of the UNESCO at Paris. From 1956 he turned to editorial services. He founded and edited Yojana, an Indian government journal in 1951 -1953;  The Illustrated Weekly of India , a newsweekly; The National Herald.   He was also appointed as editor of  Hindustan Times  on  Indira Gandhi's  personal recommendation. During his tenure, The Illustrated Weekly became India's pre-eminent newsweekly, with its circulation raising from 65,000 to 400,000. After working for nine years in the weekly, on 25 July 1978, a week before he was to retire, the management asked Singh to leave "with immediate effect".  A new editor was installed the same day. After Singh's departure, the weekly suffered a huge drop in readership. In 2016 Khushwant Singh enters  Limca Book of Records  as a tribute Career

6. Rockefeller Grant , 1966 Padma Bhushan , Government of India (1974) (He returned the decoration in 1984 in protest against the Union government's siege of the Golden Temple, Amritsar ) Honest Man of the Year,  Sulabh International  (2000 ) Punjab Rattan Award ,  The Government of Punjab  (2006 ) Padma Vibhushan , Government of India (2007 ) Sahitya Akademi Fellowship  by Sahitya academy of India (2010 ) 'All-India Minorities Forum Annual Fellowship Award' by  Uttar Pradesh  Chief Minister  Akhilesh Yadav  (2012 ) Lifetime achievement award by Tata Literature Live! The Mumbai Litfest in 2013 Fellow of King's College London  in January 2014 'The Grove Press Award' for the best fiction. Honor and awards

7. The Mark of Vishnu and Other Stories, (Short Story) 1950 The History of Sikhs, 1953 Train to Pakistan , (Novel) 1956 The Voice of God and Other Stories, (Short Story) 1957 I Shall Not Hear the Nightingale, (Novel) 1959 The Sikhs Today, 1959 The Fall of the Kingdom of the Punjab, 1962 A History of the Sikhs, 1963 Ranjit Singh: The Maharaja of the Punjab, 1963 Ghadar 1915: India's first armed revolution, 1966 A History of the Sikhs, 1966 (2nd edition) A Bride for the Sahib and Other Stories, (Short Story) 1967 Black Jasmine, (Short Story) 1971 Tragedy of Punjab'" The Collected Stories of Khushwant Singh, N.p., Ravi Dayal Publisher, 1989 Delhi: A Novel , (Novel) 1990 Not a Nice Man to Know: The Best of Khushwant Singh, 1993 We Indians, 1993 Women and Men in My Life, 1995 Declaring Love in Four Languages, by Khushwant Singh and Sharda Kaushik, 1997 India: An Introduction, by Khushwant Singh The Company of Women, (Novel) 1999 Truth, Love and a Little Malice (an autobiography), 2002 With Malice towards One and All The End of India, 2003 Burial at the Sea, 2004 Why I Supported the Emergency: Essays and Profiles, 2009 The Sunset Club, (Novel) 2010 Gods and Godmen of India, 2012 Agnostic Khushwant: There is no God, 2012  The Good, the Bad and the Ridiculous, 2013 (Co-authored with Humra Qureshi) More Malicious Gossip 1989 - Collection of Writings Sex, Scotch & Scholarship, 1992 Collection of Writings Big Book of Malice, 2000, Collection of Writings Khushwantnama, The Lessons Of My Life, 2013 The Freethinker's Prayer Book and Some Words To Live By, 2012 Books Written by Him

8. Role of father of Khushwant singh in formation of Delhi

9. Sardar Bahadur Sobha Singh was born in 1890, in the village lura  Hadali  in  Khushab ,  Shahpur District  – then part of  British India  (now Pakistan). He was the elder of the two sons of Sujan Singh and Lakshmi Devi, the younger one being  Sardar Ujjal Singh ,  who was a  Member of Parliament  in India from the state of Punjab. After a few years at school in Amritsar, he joined his father's business of civil construction dealing in the laying of railway tracks and the digging of tunnels. Early life

10. When  Hardinge , the  Viceroy of India , announced the plan to move the British Indian  capital city  to Delhi was along with the  Coronation Durbar  for  King George V  and the  Queen Mary , would take place in Delhi in December 1911, Sujan Singh and 22-year-old Sobha Singh, who was then a contractor working on the  Kalka-Shimla railroad , shifted base to Delhi as building contractors. Building contracts then being given out. Sujan Singh-Sobha Singh were accepted as senior-grade contractors. Plans for the new city were drawn immediately after the Coronation Durbar. The Foundation stones had been laid by the King and Queen. After this the architects,  Edwin Lutyens  and  Herbert Baker  wanted to change the site from where the foundation stones had been laid to  Raisina hill  and the village of Malcha. Sobha Singh had the foundation stones removed during the night and took them 11 km across the city and replanted them on the new site. The construction of the plans were taken up after World War I (1914–18). For the  South Block  and War Memorial Arch ( now  India Gate ), Sir Sobha was the sole builder. He also worked on some parts of the Viceregal House (now  Rashtrapati Bhavan ) and  Vijay Chowk . Career

11. Sir Sobha bought as much land in Delhi as he could. He bought several extensive sites at as little as Rs 2 per square yard, freehold. There were few other takers, and he came to be described as adhi dilli ka malik (the owner of half of Delhi ).   He constructed many residential and commercial buildings, including the  Connaught Place  market complex,as well as the Chelmsford, A.I.F.A.C.'s Hall, Broadcasting House ( All India Radio ),  The National Museum ,  Dyal Singh College , T.B.Hospital,  Modern School , Deaf and Dumb School,  St. Columba's School , Red Cross Buildings and  Baroda House . Outside Delhi, he built the High Court and Government Medical College at Nagpur and the Pasteur Institute at Kasauli. Sir Sobha Singh was a person of modest education but his success as a builder made him one of the wealthiest persons of Delhi; also, a prominent member of the social elite. He also became the first  Indian  president of the  New Delhi Municipal Council  and held the post four times, in 1938, 1942, and 1945-46. Appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire ( OBE ) in the 1938 Birthday Honours, he was subsequently appointed a member of the  Council of States  He was knighted in the 1944 Birthday Honours. [7]  He also built Sujan Singh Park, near  Khan Market  New Delhi, New Delhi's first apartment complex, which only had bungalows till then, in 1945, designed by  Walter Sykes George  and named after his father. [8]  Sir Sobha Singh died in  Delhi  on 18 April 1978.

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