Varied vignettes of life

Of Cabbages and Kings by Harish Dhillon Hay House. Pages 243. Rs 299. The sheer ordinariness of life, which most of us have to live, is enlivened by some events that provide the silver lining to the dreary clouds of routine which becomes our life. It could be an encounter with someone, the sight of something, triggering off an association …


Khushwant Singh: Above all, there was malice to none

THE most read columnist of India is no more. Khushwant Singh’s columns were published in many newspapers, including ‘The Tribune’. They were translated into many languages and provided Indians with a window in which they saw the world through the eyes of the long-time resident of Sujan Singh Park in New Delhi. Sujan Singh Park is named after his grandfather and …