New Delhi: The renowned author and journalist died peacefully at his Sujan Singh Park home ,Singh enthralled millions of readers with classics like “Train to Pakistan”, “I Shall Not Hear the Nightingale” and “Delhi – A Novel”.
Mr Singh was born on February 2, 1915, in Hadali, now in Pakistan’s Punjab, was the founder-editor of Yojana and went on to head The Illustrated Weekly of India, the National Herald and the Hindustan Times. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 1974 but returned it in 1984, in protest against “Operation Bluestar”, or the storming of the Golden Temple in Amritsar by the Indian Army under then prime minister Indira Gandhi.
