So much fun to read this! My experience regarding Khushwant is similar to yours! Well, till you had read his biography. He seemed like a colourful personality.
Literature on partition always comes back to haunt me. I find it to be something close to home (pun un intended) However, I like reading about it. I want to read about it. Looking for stories that tell me all the sacrifices were worth it. It is true that people are a product of circumstance(s). Some people are pushed into doing things, some people .... are just doing things irregardless.
Ice candy man: a book i read when iwas in my teens. It felt weird to read a book where the reader is just some years older than the protoganist. I could not figure out a lot of things in that book especially the ice candy man character. By university, i watched the aamir khan movie 1940 earth based on the book, where I actually understood all the motivations of the characters in the book and political complexity I could fathom.
Bapsi sidhwa is a difficult read. Her writing can be very glooomy.
I have only read khushwant singhs train to delhi: i always felt he loves writing sex like sydney sheldon and spends quite some time there. May be i should read his autobiography to better understand the partition.
So in his autobiography khushwant mentions that when the urdu translation of this book train to Pakistan was published his mother stayed up all night reading it. The next morning she was down with exhaustion and headache. He visited to check up on her. His mother was lying down with her arm covering her face. On khushwants approach she cracked open one eye and just said "beysharam"
So much fun to read this! My experience regarding Khushwant is similar to yours! Well, till you had read his biography. He seemed like a colourful personality.
Literature on partition always comes back to haunt me. I find it to be something close to home (pun un intended) However, I like reading about it. I want to read about it. Looking for stories that tell me all the sacrifices were worth it. It is true that people are a product of circumstance(s). Some people are pushed into doing things, some people .... are just doing things irregardless.
Great post!
Ice candy man: a book i read when iwas in my teens. It felt weird to read a book where the reader is just some years older than the protoganist. I could not figure out a lot of things in that book especially the ice candy man character. By university, i watched the aamir khan movie 1940 earth based on the book, where I actually understood all the motivations of the characters in the book and political complexity I could fathom.
Bapsi sidhwa is a difficult read. Her writing can be very glooomy.
I have only read khushwant singhs train to delhi: i always felt he loves writing sex like sydney sheldon and spends quite some time there. May be i should read his autobiography to better understand the partition.
So in his autobiography khushwant mentions that when the urdu translation of this book train to Pakistan was published his mother stayed up all night reading it. The next morning she was down with exhaustion and headache. He visited to check up on her. His mother was lying down with her arm covering her face. On khushwants approach she cracked open one eye and just said "beysharam"
Cracked me up