Question

The Illustrated Weekly of India was at its peak when Khushwant Singh was the Editor of the Weekly.

His writings include.

I. The History of Sikhs

II. The Train to Pakistan

III. The Company of Women

IV. The Sunset Club

V. Sex, Scotch Scholarship

VI. With Malice Towards One and All

VII. Not a Nice Man to Know

VIII. The Good, the Bad and the Ridiculous

Which one was his last novel?

1. III
2. IV
3. V
4. VI

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 2 : IV

The correct answer is IV.

• The Sunset Club was his last novel.

 

• Khushwant Singh (born Khushal Singh, 2 February 1915 – 20 March 2014) was an Indian author, lawyer, diplomat, journalist and politician.
• His experience in the 1947 Partition of India inspired him to write Train to Pakistan in 1956 (made into a film in 1998), which became his most well-known novel.
• 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.
• In 2007 he was awarded the Padma Vibhushan, the second-highest civilian award in India.
• Books by Khushwant Singh
  • The Mark of Vishnu and Other Stories, (Short Story) 1950
  • The History of Sikhs, 1953
  • Train to Pakistan, (Novel) 1956
  • The Voice of God and Other Stories, (Short Story) 1957
  • I Shall Not Hear the Nightingale, (Novel) 1959
  • The Sikhs Today, 1959
  • The Fall of the Kingdom of the Punjab, 1962
  • A History of the Sikhs, 1963
  • Ranjit Singh: The Maharaja of the Punjab, 1963
  • Ghadar 1915: India's first armed revolution, 1966
  • A History of the Sikhs, 1966 (2nd edition)
  • A Bride for the Sahib and Other Stories, (Short Story) 1967
  • The tragedy of Punjab'
  • The Collected Stories of Khushwant Singh, N.p., Ravi Dayal Publisher, 1989
  • Delhi: A Novel, (Novel) 1990
  • Sex, Scotch & Scholarship, 1992 Collection of Writings
  • Not a Nice Man to Know: The Best of Khushwant Singh, 1993
  • We Indians, 1993
  • Women and Men in My Life, 1995
  • Declaring Love in Four Languages, by Khushwant Singh and Sharda Kaushik, 1997
  • India: An Introduction, by Khushwant Singh
  • The Company of Women, (Novel) 1999
  • Big Book of Malice, 2000, Collection of Writings
  • Truth, Love and a Little Malice (an autobiography), 2002
  • With Malice towards One and All
  • The End of India, 2003
  • Burial at the Sea, 2004
  • Paradise and Other Stories, 2004
  • A History of the Sikhs: 1469–1838, 2004
  • Death at My Doorstep, 2005
  • A History of the Sikhs: 1839–2004, 2005
  • The Illustrated History of the Sikhs, 2006
  • Why I Supported the Emergency: Essays and Profiles, 2009
  • The Good, The Bad and The Ridiculous 
  • The Sunset Club, (Novel) 2010