"I was saddened to read that Khushwant Singh passed away in his sleep last week. What a quiet end for so loud a man. How the gods mocked the mocking…. As Khushwant once said, the obituary is the best place to tell the truth for dead men file libel suits. (An agnostic to the end he didn’t believe in the Resurrection.)"
Dhiren Ganguly's early obituary of Khushwant Singh, latter's intense anger with it, followed by the former's early death at 31 in a car accident, followed by Khushwant Singh's obituary to Dhiren, who he claimed, was dead in fact, makes for a strange reading. There is black humour in it, indistinguishable blended with true wit, honest and sincere criticism, topped by an irony that the heavens always retain the choice to unleash. Disturbing and chilling, to an extent, amusing and intelligent nonetheless.
Dhiren Ganguly's early obituary of Khushwant Singh, latter's intense anger with it, followed by the former's early death at 31 in a car accident, followed by Khushwant Singh's obituary to Dhiren, who he claimed, was dead in fact, makes for a strange reading. There is black humour in it, indistinguishable blended with true wit, honest and sincere criticism, topped by an irony that the heavens always retain the choice to unleash. Disturbing and chilling, to an extent, amusing and intelligent nonetheless.
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