Actress Divya Dutta who played one of the leads in the screen adaptation of Khushwant Singh's Train To Pakistan , met the incorrigible Sardarji a few months ago.
She says, `I've the fondest memories of him! We shared a bond ever since Train To Pakistan. I visited him at his home in Delhi a few months back. We had a heart-to-heart chat. He was full of life. He gifted me a book with a lovely message. It would be my cherished gift for life.`
Divya is now in the process of writing a book culling together the anecdotes she has gathered from Khushwant Singh. `We discussed life in general.I am writing down his anecdotes. I could never get enough of them.`
Actor Rajit Kapur who starred in the screen adaptation of Train To Pakistan says, `If there was one Indian who really spoke his mind and who really had a way with words it was Khushwant Singh. He was a man of letters all the way.`
Writer Prasson Joshi says, `He lived like Khushwant Singh. Dominated our consciousness, lived without pretences and had this throbbing sense of life which was unmatchable. We will really miss him.`
Author-columnist Farrukh Dhondy adds, `Very sorry to read of Khushwant's passing.
He was undoubtedly the father of Indian intellectual mischief. His sense of irreverence and humour brought a modern consciousness to an editorial generation characterised by a sobriety which often verged on an unwelcome solemness.RIP.`
