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Fauja Singh became the world's oldest half marathon runner when he
completed the 2010 Luxembourg Inter Faith Marathon at the age of
99. Turbaned Tornado captures Fauja Singh's zest for life and his
invincible sprit. It traces the runner's roots and tries to capture
his life's journey, understanding the impact of Fauja on the world
around him. For Fauja 'Impossible is Nothing' as he wishes to run a
marathon at 100.
"In the summer of 1947, when the creation of the state of Pakistan
was formally announced, ten million people--Muslims and Hindus and
Sikhs--were in flight. By the time the monsoon broke, almost a
million of them were dead, and all of northern India was in arms,
in terror, or in hiding. The only remaining oases of peace were a
scatter of little villages lost in the remote reaches of the
frontier. One of these villages was Mano Majra."
It is a place, Khushwant Singh goes on to tell us at the beginning
of this classic novel, where Sikhs and Muslims have lived together
in peace for hundreds of years. Then one day, at the end of the
summer, the "ghost train" arrives, a silent, incredible funeral
train loaded with the bodies of thousands of refugees, bringing the
village its first taste of the horrors of the civil war. Train to
Pakistan is the story of this isolated village that is plunged into
the abyss of religious hate. It is also the story of a Sikh boy and
a Muslim girl whose love endured and transcends the ravages of war.
The collection attempts to mirror the author's concerns and
passions-his love of nature, his anguish over the situation in
Punjab, his interest in religions of the world and his scholarly
research on the one into which he was born, Sikhism. The highlight
of this book, however, is the expansive, autobiographical opening
piece written in Khushwant's characteristically candid style and
perhaps the most complete self-portrait he has yet painted.
It is the summer of 1947. But Partition does not mean much to the
Sikhs and Muslims of Mano Majra, a village on the border of India
and Pakistan. Then, a local money-lender is murdered, and suspicion
falls upon Juggut Singh, the village gangster who is in love with a
Muslim girl. When a train arrives, carrying the bodies of dead
Sikhs, the village is transformed into a battlefield, and neither
the magistrate nor the police are able to stem the rising tide of
violence. Amidst conflicting loyalties, it is left to Juggut Singh
to redeem himself and reclaim peace for his village. First
published in 1956, Train to Pakistan is a classic of modern Indian
fiction.
Sikhs Unlimited deals with the fifth largest religion of the world.
Emigrating to the west from the beginning of the twentieth century,
the enterprising Sikhs have carved out an exclusive place for
themselves in the world. The book showcases the inimitable
successes of Sikhs in the UK and the US; and there could be no
better time for this commemorative book, when the Sikh Diaspora is
set to complete a century of its existence in the west. 'Its still
early for book reviews to start pouring in, but if the 254 page
Sikhs Unlimited is anything like its author, it should be one heck
of a read.' - Rajan Chakravarty, senior journalist on Sikhchic.com
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collects the best of over fifty years of his prose - including his
finest journalistic pieces, short stories, translations, jokes and
a play, as well as excerpts from his autobiography, novels and
non-fiction books. Taken together, this collection shows just why
Khushwant Singh is one of the country's most celebrated and
widely-read authors.
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