Much Of A Muchness

Truth Love and a Little Malice

Khushwant Singh

Viking/Ravi Dayal

423 pages/Rs 450

The Puffies is an award that is handed out every year to the blurb-writer, publisher or unwary critic who comes up with the most outrageously over-the-top bit of praise for an unworthy book. They have a nominee from India this year; the editor who suggested that Khushwant Singh