Khushwant Singh Analysis

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Khushwant Singh a lawyer and journalist has transformed into world renowned writer. He is chiefly branded today for his prominent works like Train to Pakistan, I shall not hear the nightingale, Delhi: A novel, The Company of woman, Burial at Sea and The Sunset Club. His writing style is witty, who has always been known for his profound and sometimes brazen interest in women. Some of his best known women characters – Nooran and Haseena from Train to Pakistan, Bhagmati from Delhi: A Novel, Champak, Shunno, Sabhrai from I Shall Not Hear the Nightingale, Dhanno from The Company of Woman, Valerie, Ma Durgeshwari and Bharati from Burial At Sea and Sunita and Begum Sakina from The Sunset Club. Some are religious and others are full of sexual instinct. The women in the Singh’s fictional world are silhouetted against their vast, panoramic background, the great human catastrophe of the partition as depicted from men’s point of view. It merely indicates and suggests the unpleasant and ghastly experience of women involved in this historical and dehumanized process but does not portray or depict their fate, their misery and their suffering. Khushwant Singh’s flair of creative writing comes forward from newspaper writing to fiction. His basic excellence, which administers his creative talent and exemplifies the progress of his art, lies in his art of creating real people from the common parlance of society. He prefers to select English as a medium for appearance of his artistic brain.

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