An end of a era one of the greatest satirist after the great Bernard Shaw is the Great Senior most Journalist and Writer Khushwant Singh passed away at the age of 99 years. Khushwant Singh (2 February 1915 – 20 March 2014) was an Indian novelist and journalist. An Indo-Anglian novelist, Singh was best known for his trenchant secularism, his humor, and an abiding love of poetry. His comparisons of social and behavioral characteristics of Westerners and Indians are laced with acid wit. He served as the editor of several literary and news magazines, as well as two broadsheet newspapers, through the 1970s and 1980s. He was the recipient of Padma Vibhushan, the second-highest civilian award in India. He got so much honours and Awards all over India and World Rockfeller Grant,1966 Padma Bhushan, Government of India (1974)(He returned the decoration in 1984 in protest against the Union governments siege of the Golden Temple, Amritsar) Honest Man of the Year, Sulabh International (2000) Punjab Rattan Award, The Government of Punjab (2006) Padma Vibhushan, Government of India (2007) Sahitya academy fellowship award by Sahitya academy of India (2010) ‘All-India Minorities Forum Annual Fellowship Award’ by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav (2012) The Mark of Vishnu and Other Stories, 1950 Novels and Books The History of Sikhs, 1953 Train to Pakistan, 1956 The Voice of God and Other Stories, 1957 I Shall Not Hear the Nightingale, 1959 The Sikhs Today, 1959 The Fall of the Kingdom of the Punjab, 1962 A History of the Sikhs, 1963
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