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On Love and Sex: Selected Writings – Khushwant Singh
$40.00Select optionsThe 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 have 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 Love and Sex: Selected Writings, he looks back at some of his previous publications like his autobiography, where he details how he lost his virginity. He describes 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 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 a Hindu-Muslim union during the times of Mughal. The Rooftop Massage describes the unusual experience of Mohan Kumar with the Masseuse Molly. Kumar is given the suggestion later on that he should never try it again
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On Religion: Selected Writings – Khushwant Singh
$50.00Select optionsKhushwant Singh, one of India’s most original thinkers on a wide range of subjects, remained keenly engaged, all his life, with the nature of belief and faith; with God; as well as the many foibles-some significant, others laughable-of organized religion. And after having intensely, extensively introspected on his own spiritual growth, Singh evolved a personal credo everyone would do well to bear in mind that each human being must work out their own religion as it best fits their lives. On Religion brings together some of Singh’s most evocative writings. Included in this anthology are his ruminations on agnosticism and how he arrived at it; explorations of the concepts of morality and reason; his unsparing skewering of the many customs and habits which masquerade as religion and faith; and recountings of the delightful encounters he had with the godwomen of his times. Unabashed, free-ranging and delightfully iconoclastic, Khushwant Singh’s On Religion is not to be missed.
