Twitter Pays Tribute to the Inimitable Author Khushwant Singh

The author Khushwant Singh passed away on Thursday. He was 99.The author Khushwant Singh passed away on Thursday. He was 99.
The author Khushwant Singh passed away on Thursday. He was 99.

The Indian literary legend Khushwant Singh passed away on Thursday at the age of 99. Singh was a well-known journalist, the founder-editor of Yojana and editor of the Illustrated Weekly of India, the National Herald and the Hindustan Times.

Singh’s best known novel was his 1956 Train to Pakistan, which was set during the summer of 1947 in a village between India and Pakistan and recalls the bloodshed and distrust of the time. And DNA India notes that his book The Company of Women “was considered to be a work reeking with explicit sex, infidelity and questions of the trust and sensuality.”

Released when he was 98, Khushwantnama: The Lessons of My Life, Singh’s last book, kept much of the humor, poetry, and unabashedness for which he was known. In 1974 Singh was awarded the Padma Bhushan, one of India’s highest civilian honors, but returned it a decade later in protest against the storming of the Golden Temple in Amritsar. Singh passed away peacefully in his home, surrounded by family. [DNA India and Firstpost]

Several news outlets, authors, celebrities and ordinary readers paid tribute to Singh via Twitter.

https://twitter.com/soniafaleiro/status/446657580635402240

Priya Arora is a graduate student at New York University, studying Human Development and Social Intervention with a research focus on mental health in LGBTQ youths. Born and raised in California, Priya has found a home in New York, and hopes to go on to become a mental health counselor. Follow her on Twitter at @thepriyaarora.

 

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