Wit and Humour in Khushwant Sing’s The Company of women

Abstract

Khushwant Singh was measured as the India’s popular, outstanding Post Colonial English Literary figure, writer and newspaper columnist. He was patron– editor of Yojana. He was a noteworthy, talented, multitalented acumen writer. He is documented for his encyclopedic portrayal in his distinguished life as a Critic, Journalist, Editor, Essayist, Novelist, Translator, Diplomat, Historian, and a Politician (as a Member of Parliament) all twisted into one. His morals Indian reliance, civilization and other ingredients of the humanity and is profoundly entrenched in the soil of India. “If you write fearlessly and candidly you have to be prepared to pay the price. And there’s no point writing if you’re not honest. It’s because of my writing that I have got the reputation of being a dirty old man but it’s never bothered me. I’ve always written that I have felt and believed to be true.”(Singh and Humara 56) Khushwant Singh has written four substantial novels - Train to Pakistan 1956, I Shall Not Hear the Nightingale 1959, Delhi 1990, and The Company of Women 1999, as a fiction writer. On examine, these four novels, it is obviously that he is essentially a realistic and humanist.