27 Facts About Khushwant Singh

Khushwant Singh studied at King's College London and was awarded an LL.

Khushwant Singh was called to the bar at the London Inner Temple.

Khushwant Singh was appointed journalist in the All India Radio in 1951, and then moved to the Department of Mass Communications of UNESCO at Paris in 1956.

Khushwant Singh served as the editor of several literary and news magazines, as well as two newspapers, through the 1970s and 1980s.

Khushwant Singh was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 1974; however, he returned the award in 1984 in protest against Operation Blue Star in which the Indian Army raided Amritsar.

Khushwant Singh was born in Hadali, Khushab District, Punjab, in a Sikh family.

Khushwant Singh was the younger son of Sir Sobha Singh, who later witnessed against Bhagat Singh, and Veeran Bai.

Khushwant Singh declared that his new name was "self-manufactured and meaningless".

Khushwant Singh entered the Delhi Modern School in 1920 and studied there till 1930.

Khushwant Singh pursued higher education at Government College, Lahore, in 1932, and got his BA in 1934 by a "third-class degree".

Khushwant Singh was called to the bar at the London Inner Temple.

Khushwant Singh started his professional career as a practicing lawyer in 1939 at Lahore in the Chamber of Manzur Qadir and Ijaz Husain Batalvi.

Khushwant Singh worked at Lahore Court for eight years where he worked with some of his best friends and fans including Akhtar Aly Kureshy, Advocate, and Raja Muhammad Arif, Advocate.

Khushwant Singh started as Information Officer of the Government of India in Toronto, Canada, and moved on to be the Press Attache and Public Officer for the Indian High Commission for four years in London and Ottawa.

Khushwant Singh was appointed as editor of Hindustan Times on Indira Gandhi's personal recommendation.

In 2016 Khushwant Singh enters Limca Book of Records as a tribute.

From 1980 to 1986, Khushwant Singh was a member of Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian parliament.

Khushwant Singh was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 1974 for service to his country.

Khushwant Singh was a votary of greater diplomatic relations with Israel at a time when India did not want to displease Arab nations where thousands of Indians found employment.

Khushwant Singh visited Israel in the 1970s and was impressed by its progress.

Khushwant Singh stayed in "Sujan Singh Park", near Khan Market New Delhi, Delhi's first apartment complex, built by his father in 1945, and named after his grandfather.

Khushwant Singh's grandniece Tisca Chopra is a noted TV and film actress.

Khushwant Singh had once controversially claimed that Sikhism was a form of "bearded Hinduism".

Khushwant Singh died of natural causes on 20 March 2014 at his Delhi residence, at the age of 99.

Khushwant Singh was cremated at Lodhi Crematorium in Delhi at 4 in the afternoon of the same day.

Khushwant Singh was born in Hadali, Khushab District in the Punjab Province of modern Pakistan, in 1915.

Khushwant Singh was cremated and his ashes are buried in Hadali school, where a plaque is placed bearing the inscription:.