Truth,Love&ALittleMalice

Contents About the Author Publishers’ Note Prologue: An Apology for Writing an Autobiography 1 Village in the Desert 2 Infancy to Adolescence: School Years 3 College Years in Delhi and Lahore 4 Discovering England 5 Lahore, Partition and Independence 6 With Menon in London, with Malik in Canada 7 Purging the Past and Return to India 8 Parisian Interlude 9 Discovery of India 10 Sikh Religion and History 11 Bombay, The Illustrated Weekly of India, 1969–79 and the Aftermath 12 With the Gandhis and the Anands 13 1980–86, Parliament and The Hindustan Times 14 Pakistan 15 Oddballs and Screwballs 16 Wrestling with the Almighty 17 On Writing and Writers 18 The Last but One Chapter Postscript: November 2001: The Harvest Years Copyright Page Publishers’ Note This volume was to have been published in January 1996, but for reasons briefly explained in the postscript, that did not come to pass. Apart from the postscript, which the author added in November 2001, the text of Truth, Love and a Little Malice: An Autobiography remains substantially as it was when originally completed in 1995. 1 Village in the Desert IT IS SAFEST ......