On Love and Sex: Selected Writings - Paperback

by Khushwant Singh (Author)

The writing career of Khushwant Singh is more than six decades old. During this time he has come up with several frank and scare free writings that has punctured the prudishness, hypocrisy and humbug of Indian society. He has been quite open in expressing his views on human sexuality and he is considered one of a kind. In on Love and Sex: Selected Writings, he looks back at some of his previous publications like his autobiography, where he details about how he lost his virginity. He describes about a newly married couple, whom he witnessed, as they consummate their marriage on a moving train. This is presented as his rumination of sexuality in India. He then describes about an episode in a doctor's clinic, a poker faced narration, which left Singh with the feeling that he has been 'buggered'. He then picks another topic from his other fiction work called A Mixed Marriage. Here he describes about a Hindu-Muslim union during the times of Mughal. The Rooftop Massage describes about the unusual experience of Mohan Kumar with the Masseuse Molly. Kumar is given the suggestion later on that he should never try it again.

Author Biography

Khushwant Singh was born in 1915 in the Hadali village of Punjab, which is now a part of Pakistan. He is one of the widely read and best known columnists and authors in India. He was the editor of the Illustrated Weekly of India, the Hindustan Times and National Herald and also the founder editor of Yogana. The Mark of Vishnu and Other Stories was his first book which was published in 1950. Over the past six decades, he has published several best-selling nonfiction and fiction books.