*'Good people can be crashing bores. Evil men who combine evil-doing
with drunkenness, debauchery and making illicit money make more
interesting characters because they pack their lives with action. They
do what most of us would like to do but do not have the guts
to.'-*Khushwant Singh
Malice. The word is synonymous with Khushwant Singh; his pen has spared
no one. For over four decades as India's most widely read columnist, he
has commented on just about everything: religion, politics, our future,
our past, prohibition, impotency, presidents, politicians, cricket,
dog-haters, astrologers, the banning of books, the secret of 1ongevity
... the list is endless.
Candid to the point of being outrageous, Khushwant Singh makes both his
reader and subject wince. He writes unabashedly on nose picking, wife
bashing, bribing journalists, gender wars and the desires of an
octogenarian; on Nehru and Edwina, Lalu, Bal Thackeray, Chandraswami and
Sonia Gandhi, among host of others.
Khushwant Singh's Big Book of Malice brings together some of his
nastiest and most irreverent pieces. Witty, sharp and brutally honest,
this collection is certain to delight and provoke readers of all ages.
