The End of India, Khushwant Singh
The End of India, Khushwant Singh
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The End of India

Author: Khushwant Singh

Narrator: Rajiv Dadia

Unabridged: 2 hr 16 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/29/2020

Synopsis

"I thought the nation was coming to an end,’ wrote Khushwant Singh, looking back on the violence of Partition that he was witness to over half a century ago. He believed then that he had seen the worst that India could do to herself. But after the violence in Gujarat in 2002, he had reason to feel that the worst, perhaps, is still to come.Analysing the communal violence in Gujarat in 2002, the anti-Sikh riots of 1984, the burning of Graham Staines and his children, the targeted killings by terrorists in Punjab and Kashmir, Khushwant Singh forces us to confront the absolute corruption of religion that has made us among the most brutal people on earth. He also points out that fundamentalism has less to do with religion than with politics. And communal politics, he reminds us, is only the most visible of the demons we have nurtured and let loose upon ourselves.
A brave and passionate book, The End of India is a wake-up call for every citizen concerned about his or her own future, if not the nation’s."

About The Author

Khushwant Singh is Indias best known writer and columnist. He has been founder editor of Yojana and editor of the Illustrated Weekly of India, the National Herald and the Hindustan Times. He is the author of classics such as Train to Pakistan, I Shall Not Hear the Nightingale and Delhi. His latest novel, The Sunset Club, written when he was 95, was published by Penguin Books in 2010. His nonfiction includes the classic two volume A History of the Sikhs, a number of translations and works on Sikh religion and culture, Delhi, nature, current affairs and Urdu poetry. His autobiography, Truth, Love and a Little Malice, was published by Penguin Books in 2002.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Elsa Rajan on December 28, 2019

Coming from an acclaimed author who had been through the perils and savagery of the partition of India in 1947 and the ruthlessness of the anti-Sikh riots of 1984, it is interesting to note that this book was written in 2003 following the landslide victory of a religious fundamentalist party in the......more

Goodreads review by S.Ach on January 25, 2016

Doomsayers are aplenty today. Talk 'positive' and no one cares, but say "Doom" and you will find many heads turning towards you. Every alternative Hollywood movie is on apocalyptic scenario. "World is coming to an end. Humanity won't survive." a common theme amongst them. In this book, the grand old......more

Goodreads review by Jon on April 19, 2023

Khushwant Singh looks at the looming threat of polarizing fundamentalism/nationalism (a deadly combination); he examines the communal tidal wave that sweeps over anyone who is labeled as 'other' and the destruction that is the result of the intolerant immersion of such movements. This book has many......more

Goodreads review by Pankaj on September 14, 2020

Khushwant Singh writes a 160 page long and tremendously boring article (turned into a book) and like most mainstream authors he is guilty of speaking too much and saying too little. Too much verbosity and too less substance. But well, such things dont bother our secular mainstream authors. In their......more

Goodreads review by Viji on November 19, 2013

A revolutionary book which express the sheer rage of the author at the situation of the country in his time and in the not-so-distant past.. This book reflects the thoughts of every secular Indian,and I mean not the for-fad-secular ones.. This book is highly relevant these days when we are waiting f......more

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