Khushwant Singh is well known for his brazen interest in the fairer sex.
He has revelled in the notoriety that this interest has evoked. Some of
his best known works are inspired by the enduring obsession with them,
both as a peerless raconteur and as a journalist. on Women: Selected
Writings is another good offering from this writer. In his book on
Women: Selected Writings, he describes an embarrassing meeting with a
drunken actress of yesteryear - Begum Para. He gives a detailed profile
of Shraddha Mata and of a tantrik sadhvi who claimed she was the mother
of the illegitimate child of Jawaharlal Nehru. Mr Singh also talks about
his grandmother, with a touching sketch on the twilight of her life. He
also returns to some unforgettable women characters from his previous
works of fiction: A clueless American teenager, Georgine, who was taken
advantage of by a middle-aged tour guide in Delhi. on Women: Selected
Writings, contains a description of a young girl, Nooran, in
pre-partition Punjab, who has a sweet feeling of falling in love for the
first time but the partition casts a long shadow on her emotions.