Absolute Khushwant (PB)

Absolute Khushwant is partially an autobiography and a biography since it has been authored by Khushwant Singh himself and Humra Quraishi. The book is a pen picture of the most controversial yet most loveable authors of the country who left many faces with smiles and yet many others with big question marks. In other words, Khushwant Singh was a humorous as well as a cynical writer of the twenty first century. Absolute Khushwant covers his life since his birth in 1915 in the pre-partitioned Punjab thereby making him a witness of the various political, economic and social changes that the nation had undergone prior to independence and thereafter. His time of birth makes it evident that Khushwant Singh had witnessed many such landmark changes over the span of 95 years of his life span. Being gifted with a unique style of writing, Khushwant Singh captured the many of the historical events of modern India in his writings. Not only that, Khushwant Singh was a well read man on religion and had at times produced works of highly volatile and controversial issues. The most popular phase of his career came when he became the columnist of a national daily and spread his views and messages in the most exuberant way. It portrays the intellectual behind his celebrity face and through him also narrates about the nation.