New York times (online), viewed Mar. 21, 2014 (in obituary published Mar. 20: Khushwant Singh; b. 1915 in Hadali, a village in the Thar Desert of what is now Baluchistan Province in Pakistan (his date of birth was not recorded; according to his autobiography, his father invented the date Feb. 2 when he enrolled him in school; Singh later changed it to Aug. 15, based on his grandmother’s recollection); d. Thursday [Mar. 20, 2014], New Delhi, aged 99, according to most reports, although by his own account he may have been several months shy of that age; Indian diplomat, author, and journalist who was one of his country’s best-known chroniclers of strife and slaughter)
