Khushwant Singh goes just as he had wished
March 21, 2014  11:47
Here lies one who spared neither man nor God
Waste not your tears on him, he was a sod
Writing nasty things he regarded as great fun
Thank the Lord he is dead, this son of a gun.

-- Khushwant Singh's epitaph to himself

"The first and only time I ever met him, shortly after he turned 99 this February, he intoned to me in whispers his diminishing lust for life. Oh I so dislike no longer being my own master, I so dislike my dependence on other people. Even to go to the loo I must wait to catch someones eye and they have to help me its the thing I have begun to most dislike, its my health Ive most begun to miss, that I am no longer my own master.

Read Sankarshan Thakur's paean to Khushwant Singh.  
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