![]() My heart goes out to Sheetal Mafatlal who has been arrested by Mumbai customs for trying to smuggle in gold and jewellery worth several lakhs without paying customs duty on them. She deserved to be made director general but was superseded and the job given to a man. I worked under a female boss (Mehra Masani) for two years and learnt to respect her ability and competence in running the Overseas Services of the A.I.Radio. If I have any, it is in favour of the female gender. ![]() ![]() "I was most impressed by the efficiency of the Indian Postal Service in locating the address of the one and only bastard in the country." Only the address was in English and very brief: "Bastard Khush-want Singh, India"." It had the foulest Punjabi abuse accusing me of all manners of incestuous relationships. However, one letter from Canada became a memento. Gursharan Kaur is the first woman who has performed the duties expected of the wife of the prime minister of India." She had come to visit me and apparently after 15 minutes or so, I told her, “Gursharan, now you go - toon hun ja.” I said so because I felt a Prime Minister’s wife had more important things to do than to waste time making polite conversation with an old man. "The audience had a hearty laugh when Gursharan Kaur said something about my boorish manner. Here are some of the best articles from his column: His political leanings – he was an admirer of Sanjay Gandhi and the Emergency – made him unpopular for a time but his boundless energy (he sent in his column to the Hindustan Times every week without fail until two years ago) and the relationships he nurtured ensured that he stayed in the news well after the rest of his generation had gone gently into the good night. ![]() Though he professed an interest in 'sex, scotch and scholarship', Singh belonged to a generation of enormously influential print journalists. Khushwant Singh, former editor of Hindustan Times, passed away at 99.Īuthor of a number of books including Train To Pakistan and History of the Sikhs, and the widely read column 'With Malice Towards One and All', Singh's Editor's Page in The Illustrated Weekly of India appeared with a caricature by the late Mario Miranda that pictured him in a light bulb surrounded by books, girlie magazines and a bottle of liquor. ![]()
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