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Khushwant Singh

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Despite having cheerfully claimed the label of “India’s Dirty Old Man” that others have thrust on him, Khushwant Singh confesses now that he has always had “a kind of missionary purpose” in his writing: to debunk religious beliefs that had no foundation whatsoever in reason. It’s that same mission which spurred him into writing The Sunset Club: “Religion has been my main target because the religions we practise are pure mythology. Nobody knows if there’s one god or three gods, or a hundred gods. Nobody has a clue who created the world, where we came from, where we go after we die. I felt it was time somebody had the courage to say: ‘I don’t know and I will only concern myself with the existence of life: not where I came from, nor where I go after I die.’” In any given situation, how do we know the right thing to do? Some people make their decisions about what’s right by listening to popular radio hosts. Others make their determinations by watching television talk shows