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About Author: Khushwant Singh  was an Indian author, lawyer, and politician. He was born on 2 nd Feb 1915 in Punjab. Khushwant Singh was educated in  Modern School, New Delhi , St . Stephen's College , and graduated from  Government College, Lahore . He studied at  King's College London  and was awarded an  LL.B.  from  University of London .   He was  called to the bar  at the London  Inner Temple .   As a writer, he was best known for his secularism, humor, sarcasm and an abiding love of poetry. His famous work ‘Train to Pakistan’ was published  in 1956. Between 1980 and 1986 he served as  Member of Parliament in Rajya Sabha , the upper house of the  Parliament of India . Khushwant Singh was awarded the  Padma Bhushan and Padma Vibhushan in 1974 and 2007 respectively. He passed away on 20 March 2014. Introduction : The Portrait of a Lady is a short story written by Khushwant Singh in an autobi...

About Author R . K. Narayan (born 1906) is one of the best novelists among Indian English writers. Narayan wrote his first novel, Swami and Friends in 1935. He is the author of fourteen novels and five volumes of short stories. Narayan created the imaginary town of Malgudi, where realistic characters in a typically Indian setting lived amid unpredictable events. He is one of the most famous and widely read Indian novelists. His stories are grounded in a compassionate humanism and celebrated the humor and energy of ordinary life. His stories are characterized by simple style and subtle humour. Background : “An Astrologer's Day” was first published in the newspaper The Hindu and then was made the title story of a collection of short stories which appeared in 1947-the year that India gained its independence. Introduction An Astrologer’s Day is a short story by R. K. Narayan. An Astrologer’s day´ tells the reader about a person’s life who accidentally becomes an Astrologer ...

Mahesh Dattani’s “Tara” About Author Mahesh Dattani was born on the 7th of August in 1958 in Bangalore, Karnataka. He is one of the most famous modern Indian - English playwrights. Dattani received the prestigious Sahitya Akademi Award for his contribution to Indian English Drama in 1998. He always deals with the complicated dynamics of the modern urban family. In many of his plays, he deals with various issues like homo sexuality, gender discrimination, communalism and child sexual abuse. Dattani is one of the play wrights who challenged the construction of India and Indian as they have been presented in the modern English theatre. His famous works are Final Solutions , Night Queen, Dance Like a Man, Tara, and Thirty Days. Introduction Tara is the third dramatic work of Mahesh Dattani. It is one of the Dattani’s best loved plays in the world. In this play Dattani attempts to study the gender-based injustice and how the male given preference over the female in an Indian fami...