Khushwant Singh 94 and Rockin

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Khushwant Singh just released another book.


At 94, the grand old man of Indian journalism, Khushwant Singh, is still in scintillating form. Talking to him on the release of his book Why I supported the Emergency, edited by our Sheela Reddy, I suggested (borrowing from Malcolm Muggeridge) that "Indians have sex on their brain, and that is the wrong place to have it". He promptly corrected Muggeridge saying you need to have it both on the brain and the body.
And who, among living public figures, does he admire most? "Manmohan Singh," he replied. Then something slightly unusual happened. In the Le Meridien Hotel banquet hall, the largely upmarket crowd cutting across party lines broke into spontaneous applause. Is there a message in the clapping?

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