Khushwant Singh is well known\n for his brazen interest in the fairer sex. He has revelled in the notoriety\n that this interest has evoked. Some of his best known works are inspired by\n the enduring obsession with them, both as a peerless raconteur and as a journalist.\n on Women: Selected Writings is another good offering from this writer. In his\n book on Women: Selected Writings, he describes an embarrassing meeting with a\n drunken actress of yesteryear – Begum Para. He gives a detailed profile of\n Shraddha Mata and of a tantrik sadhvi who claimed she was the mother of the\n illegitimate child of Jawaharlal Nehru. Mr Singh also talks about his\n grandmother, with a touching sketch on the twilight of her life. He also\n returns to some unforgettable women characters from his previous works of\n fiction: A clueless American teenager, Georgine, who was taken advantage of\n by a middle-aged tour guide in Delhi. on Women: Selected Writings, contains a\n description of a young girl, Nooran, in pre-partition Punjab, who has a sweet\n feeling of falling in love for the first time but the partition casts a long\n shadow on her emotions. The book is in paperback format and is published by\n Rupa Publications India in 2014.Key Features:On Women: Selected Writing is\n poignant, insightful and wicked at times. The extracts and the essays are\n proofs of what makes Khushwant Singh one of the most celebrated writers in\n India.