A Critical Estimate of Khuswant Singh’s Fiction

An Assessment of Khuswant Singh's Fiction

by Shahbaz Ahmad*,

- Published in Journal of Advances and Scholarly Researches in Allied Education, E-ISSN: 2230-7540

Volume 13, Issue No. 2, Jul 2017, Pages 805 - 806 (2)

Published by: Ignited Minds Journals


ABSTRACT

Khuswant Singh is one of the finest historian and novelists, a forthright political commentator, and an outstanding observe and social critic. His reputation as a writer of Indo English fiction rests upon his novels like “train to Pakistan, I shall not Hear the Nightingale, Delhi, The company of women and burial at sea.” He has written short stories as “The voice of God.” A Bride for the sahib” and Blank Jasmine.” No doubt, Khuswant Singh is a convenient write in the sense that he does not compel a wider reading.

KEYWORD

Khuswant Singh, fiction, historian, novelist, political commentator, social critic, Indo English fiction, short stories, wider reading