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When Khushwant Singh died at\n the age of ninety-nine in 2014, he had over a hundred books to his name and\n was widely regarded as one of India?s greatest writers. The hallmarks of his\n finest work were courage, honesty, style, humour, simplicity and great storytelling.\n Me, the Jokerman assembles over fifty essays, most of them unpublished in\n book form, in the categories that he had made his own? religion, nature, sex,\n autobiography and above all, humour. Entertaining, insightful as well as\n laugh-out-loud funny, this is a book that will delight Khushwant Singh?s\n legions of admirers.
Khushwant Singh is Indias best known writer and columnist. He has been founder editor of Yojana and editor of the Illustrated Weekly of India, the National Herald and the Hindustan Times. He is the author of classics such as Train to Pakistan, I Shall Not Hear the Nightingale and Delhi. His latest novel, The Sunset Club, written when he was 95, was published by Penguin Books in 21. His nonfiction includes the classic two volume A History of the Sikhs, a number of translations and works on Sikh religion and culture, Delhi, nature, current affairs and Urdu poetry. His autobiography, Truth, Love and a Little Malice, was published by Penguin Books in 22.
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