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February 18, 2026

202. Waste not your tears on him

After reading yesterday’s post, a reader reminded me that my guru, Khushwant Singh, had written his own epitaph.


He is right.

 

I think he must be the only person who wrote his own epitaph many years before his time came.

 

Read his lines - 

 

Here lies one who spared neither man nor God

Waste not your tears on him, he was a sod

Writing nasty things, he regarded as great fun

Thank the Lord he is dead, this son of a gun.