Death At My Doorstep

For Khushwant Singh who wrote his own obituary in his twenties, death is not sacred but he reflects o­n it increasingly these days. In Death at My Doorstep, a collection of obituaries written over the years, he presents the dead in death, as in life-good, bad or ugly.Be it o­n the twilight hours of Bhutto, the gory end of Sanjay Gandhi, the sycophantic M.O. Mathai, the Marxist millionaire Rajni Patel, the overbearing Lord Mountbatten, or o­n his pet alsation Simba, each obituary bears out his irreverence or affection.