"To get a measure of Khushwant Singh’s life (he died on 20 March 2014, at the age of 99), one needs to remember that when he was born in 1915, the First World War had just begun. And if one goes back another 99 years, to 1816, Maharaja Ranjit Singh was still on the throne of Lahore. Khushwant Singh managed to telescope through his writings that two hundred year gap into one seamless narrative of Punjabiat." - F.S. Aijazuddin

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