Word: khushwant
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...Muggeridge, and perhaps even Jawaharlal Nehru, India's future prime minister. Rumors grew furiously but Sher-Gil doesn't seem to have cared; her self-portraits, which, like her nude studies of women, are icons of Indian feminism, show a cheerful, exuberant woman, confident in her sexuality. Indian journalist Khushwant Singh, a fellow resident of Lahore in the 1940s, writes in his autobiography: "She was said to have given appointments to her lovers, three to four every day with intervals of a couple of hours in between." Perhaps none of this was true, but it added to her mystique...
...that exposing the love lives of the country's leaders remains taboo. So when the purported sexual peccadilloes of the nation's first?and most important?Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, inspire a new novel, you'd expect Indians to be astonished and appalled. Unless, of course, its author is Khushwant Singh. One of India's oldest and most respected writers, Singh also ranks among its smuttiest, and his compatriots are long used to being astonished and appalled by what he produces. In fact, many look forward...
...short stories. It's unlikely to be his last work. In a scene from Burial at Sea, a colleague advises the young Bhagwan on how to pen a book about his country: "Write a long love letter of many chapters to India as if it were your sweetheart." Khushwant Singh has had a lifelong love-hate relationship with India?and he seems intent on shooting off a few more bittersweet love letters before he's done...