Justice Jaswant Singh

Justice Jaswant Singh was a retired judge of the Supreme Court, who come for Shri Nathji’s darshan and receives a new zest for life from him. He had been in a state of acute sorrow due to the death of several of his loved ones, during India's independence and partition violence, but the moment he came before Shri Nathji peace entered his heart. He said to Shri Nathji amidst tears:

“You have taken away all my worries ever since you have taken me in your boat! Now there is only one worry left– that you may not ask me to leave the boat! Kaheen naav se utaar naa denaa!” And Shri Nathji said to him:

“If I did that, I would be proving that I had made a mistake! But there is no mistake in the divine selection!”

When Shri Nathji celebrated the World Prayer Day on the 23rd of June 1985, Justice Jaswant Singh was on stage along with Mr.A.M. Phiri and Shri D.N. Sinha. (As seen highlighted in the photo on top)There He calls Shri Nathji as “the Saviour of Mankind.”

Shri Anil Dev, son of Justice Jaswant Singh was also devoted to Shri Nathji.  

At 23rd June Fuction of1987 at Sapru Hall, Justice Jaswant Singh spoke of the love of Shri Nathji for the people of the world, which made Him take upon Himself the ills and sorrows of the suffering humanity around him, and called him a Fountain of Love and the Saviour of Mankind.

Also there was a time in Delhi, when Shri Nathji had been eating the ‘samosa’-like biscuits which Justice Jaswant Singh has been sending every day. Shri Nathji even waits eagerly for their arrival. It is like Lord Krishna eating the bananas of Vidur. Although the only biscuits that Shri Nathji ever ate were the usual Glucose biscuits, and at times the Cream Crackers, yet here he was eager to eat these home-made biscuits sent by the learned judge–which were an offering of love.

 In Word Prayer Day  Justice Jaswant Singh pays his tribute to Shri Nathji and says:

“HE IS NOT A MAN – BUT A SUPERMAN!

“He has saved the world from certain nuclear destruction… Whenever I am in any difficulty in life I think of Him and my difficulty is removed..”

Justice Jaswant Singh was born on 25th January, 1914. He Matriculated from Government High School, Mirpur securing 4th position in the school. He Joined Forman Christian College, Lahore, in 1929 wherefrom he graduated in 1933 and later obtained degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1935 from the Punjab University, Lahore, securing very high Ist Division. He was also awarded a certificate of honour in F.E.L. Class . He Joined the Bar as a Pleader at Jammu in March, 1936. He was admitted and enrolled as a Vakil of the High Court of Jammu & Kashmir in May 1938.  He was enrolled as Advocate of the High Court in March 1942. He was appointed as Public Prosecutor, Jammu in August 1944 and remained so upto December, 1944. He worked as Public Prosecutor, Mirpur, from 19-3-1945 to 15-5-1945; as Public Prosecutor, Srinagar, from 20-5-1945 to 14-11-1945; as Public Prosecutor, Mirpur, from 7-12-1945 to 1-6-1946; as Public Prosecutor, Srinagar, from 1-6-1946 to 19-9-1946; as Public Prosecutor, Jammu, from 28-9-1946 to 15-5-1947; and was appointed as 2nd Assistant to the Advocate General on 18-5-1947. He was appointed Assistant Advocate General , Jammu & Kashmir on 1-8-1948. He functioned as Acting Advocate General from 1949 and became full fledged Advocate General of the State in 1956 which post he held upto 2-12-1967 except for two months from 16th March, 1967 to 15th May 1967 when he became the Acting Judge of the High Court of Jammu and Kashmir. He enrolled as Advocate of the Supreme Court of India in 1955 – unanimously elected as the President of the Bar Association, Jammu, in 1966-67. He conducted several intricate cases involving important questions of law and Constitution both before the Supreme Court and the High Court of Jammu and Kashmir.  Became permanent Judge of the High Court of Jammu and Kashmir on 3-12-1967 and Chief Justice of that Court on 2-4-1975. He was Appointed Judge of the Supreme Court on 23-1-1976 and retired on 24/01/1979.

Doordarshan

Shri Nathji had a long association with Doordarshan.  The Doordarshan team had been coming to the functions on 23^rd of June and World Prayer Day in Delhi every year and their coming had always filled HH Priya Nath with the happy thought that millions of people in India would get the darshan of Shri Nathji on the National News. Shri D. N. Sinha, had always gone to the office of Doordarshan to contact them for coverage of Shri Nathji’s functions in Delhi.

Doordarshan had also broadcasted the message

from Shri Nathji for peace in the Punjab. And there is Shri Nathji’s voice ringing out in a commandment:

“PUNJAB SHAANT HO JAAYE!”

The Doordarshan Television also gave the news of the World Prayer Day on the Samachar Diary. Shri Nathji looks incredibly beautiful and divine on the Television Screen. The news commentary is very good. The lady news reader speaks of prayer as mentioned in the ancient scriptures and then says:

“Atthaasi varshiye adhyaathmik Guru Shri Bhola Nathji Maharaj ne Vishwa PraarthnaDivas manaayaa. The 88 year old spiritual leader Shri Bhola Nathji Maharaj observed World Prayer Day.”

“His appeal for peace went out to 170 countries of the world. A resolution for peace was sent to the United Nations. The gathering at FICCI Auditorium consisted of people of all religious faiths. Shri Bhola Nathji’s appeal to the people of the world was:

“Pray wherever you are, In whatever way you like.”

Also Shri Nathji was very keen that the ghazals, which were put to music by HH Priya Nath be recorded and sent to the Doordarshan Television for broadcasting.

Doordarshan also covered the World Prayed Day function stage at FICC Hall on the 23rd of June 1993, when HH Priya Nathji spoke on the occasion, as if he had been seized by a Divine Current and everyone in the Hall felt the presence of

Shri Nathji in HH Priya Nathji. The Doordarshan Television broadcast the  event all over India in the National News.

Doordarshan (literally Distant Sight, a calque of the word "television") is an Indian public service broadcaster, a division of Prasar Bharati. It is one of the largest broadcasting organizations in India in terms of the infrastructure of studios and transmitters. Recently, it has also started Digital Terrestrial Transmitters. On September 15, 2009, Doordarshan celebrated its 50th anniversary. The DD provides television, radio, online and mobile services throughout metropolitan and regional India, as well as overseas through the Indian Network and Radio India.

Doordarshan had a modest beginning with the experimental telecast starting in Delhi on 15 September 1959 with a small transmitter and a makeshift studio. The regular daily transmission started in 1965 as a part of All India Radio. The television service was extended to Bombay (now Mumbai) and Amritsar in 1972. Up until 1975, only seven Indian cities had a television service and Doordarshan remained the sole provider of television in India. Television services were separated from radio in April 1, 1976. Each office of All India Radio and Doordarshan were placed under the management of two separate Director Generals in New Delhi. Finally, in 1982, Doordarshan as a National Broadcaster came into existence. Krishi Darshan was the first program telecast on Doordarshan. It commenced on January 26, 1967 and is one of the longest running programs on Indian television.

National telecasts were introduced in 1982. In the same year, colour TV was introduced in the Indian market with the live telecast of the Independence Day speech by then prime minister Indira Gandhi on 15 August 1982, followed by the 1982 Asian Games which were held in Delhi. Now more than 90 percent of the Indian population can receive Doordarshan (DD National) programmes through a network of nearly 1,400 terrestrial transmitters. There are about 46 Doordarshan studios producing TV programmes today.

UPITN

Shri Nathji’s Birthday Celebrations at Sapru House, on June 23, 1987 (Whose photograph is given on top) was broadcasted internationally in more than 80 countries around the world by UPITN, a foreign TV network. That speech of Shri Nathji was fascinating, beyond compare, and stunning. It lasted for almost one and a half hours! People were taken beyond Space and Time. Shri Nathji was back again in His own Divine Element. He had miraculously shrugged off the illness which had appeared to debilitate him. HH Priya Nath considered this, as one of the greatest miracle of Shri Nathji.
THE GREATEST MIRACLE OF ALL WAS THE SUDDEN LOUD VOICE OF SHRI NATHJI THAT APPEARED TO VIBRATE FROM ALL CORNERS OF THE HALL. HIS GESTURES WERE AS POWERFUL AS EVER, LIKE THOSE OF A YOUNG MAN. THERE WAS A GLOW OF PERFECT HEALTH ON HIS FACE. AND A DAZZLING DIVINE BRILLIANCE THAT POURED FORTH ON HUMANITY.

United Press International Television News, abbreviated as UPITN was a successor to earlier UPI television news film operations, (United Press International – UPI, a once-major international news agency). UPITN was a television news agency, operating from 1967 to 1985. United Press International Television News and Visnews were the two largest and most important television news agencies at the time. UPITN was at the forefront of international newsgathering and had a vast network of foreign bureaus around the world with film crews capturing images of the events and people that defined the era.

United Press International Television News was formed with the combination of  United Press Movietone and United Press International Newsfilm. In 1985, after UPI sold its interest, it was renamed Worldwide Television News, or WTN. In 1998 WTN was bought out by the Associated Press, to become Associated Press Television News.

HH Priya Nathji's favorite magazine - Illustrated Weekly

HH Priya Nathji’s favorite magazine was the Illustrated Weekly. Advertisement about the World Prayer Day was also is given to the Illustrated Weekly of India. Also when the beautiful photograph of Shri Nathji attending the marriage of the daughter of Maharaja Sarila at Mussoorie was also published in the same magazine in the 19230’s.

One of HH Priya Nathji’s favorite writer Khushwant Singh was also one of its editors for many years. In 1975, when HH Priya Nathji had written a letter to Khushwant Singh, informing Him about Shri Nathji, he had replied to the letter had expressed his desire to meet Shri Nathji, when He comes to Mumbai.  HH Priya Nath ji was very pleased with him, as in contrast to other editors of the Illustrated Weekly like N.V. Kamath and Pritish Nandy, who never bothered to reply, there was Khushwant Singh, ever polite, warm and humble. Priya Nath often thought that if their where more agnostics like him in the world, the world would be a much better place to live in.

The month of June 1977 saw a divinely beautiful portrait of Shri Nathji appear in The Illustrated Weekly, which was then one of the leading magazines of India. Priya Nath had sent this beautiful portrait to the Magazine along with a write-up about Shri Nathji when they had been in Delhi before coming to Mussoorie. It was the same picture in a bust pose, in a turban and achkan, which been printed in “Mrityu Kaa Rahasya” and “The Secret if Death:” in 1974.
All who looked upon the photograph were instantly gripped by an overwhelming feeling of Love Divine. Here was a being the likes of which had never been seen in the world before. It was an advertisement for Shri Nathji’s book, The Secret of Death.-
"A great spiritual luminary of our time, a World Teacher, who calls himself, in all humility, Nath, Ghulam Rue Zameen–the Servant of the Earth,” said the magazine.
“His speeches and writings have brought home peace of mind to many. Never before have spiritual truths been unfolded with such power and beauty. The masterly pen of the author lays bare hidden secrets like they have never been revealed before.”

For the first time in Shri Nathji's history, he had suffered publicity being given. Thousands now looked upon the Face of God. And yet it had not been openly declared in the magazine who he was. Shri Nathji always left it to the people to judge for themselves and to come to their own conclusions, from within the depths of their hearts and souls.

The Illustrated Weekly of India was an English language weekly newsmagazine publication in India. It started publication in 1880 (as Times of India Weekly Edition, later renamed as The Illustrated Weekly of India in 1923) and ceasing publication in 1993. The Illustrated Weekly of India was considered to be an important English language publication in India for over a century.

The magazine was edited by A.S. Raman, Khushwant Singh, M. V. Kamath, and Pritish Nandy. A.S. Raman was the first Indian editor of The Illustrated Weekly of India, succeeding Sean Mandy. Khushwant Singh who was then a sub-editor of the magazine took over as editor upon Raman's departure. Cartoons in the latter half of the magazine were by R. K. Laxman and Mario Miranda. It closed down on November 13, 1993.

Many young students of English used it as a regular reading and guide for honing English language skills in vernacular India. The Illustrated Weekly of India was an important English language publication in India over a century, bringing together the formation, and construction of a young nation.

The "Weekly", as it was called by its loyal readers defined the reading habits of at least two generations during the 1970s and 1980s, when it featured well researched articles, cartoons by Mario and R.K. Laxman, party jokes, western cartoons like Phantom, and glamorous models. A series "The India You Do Not Know" on different states of India and another on different communities of India became very authentic sources of reference during this period.

Khushwant translation of Sir Iqbal's work.

In 1975 when Khushwant Singh had been the editor of the Illustrated Weekly of India and was posted at Bombay. HH Priya Nath had read several of Sir Iqbal’s Urdu verses which were translated by Khushwant Singh, amongst which was:

“Kabhi ai Haqueeqate Muntazar

Nazar aa libaase majaaz men,

Ke hazaaron sajde tarrap rahe hain

Meri jabeene niyaaz men.”

“O Thou much awaited Reality

Appear before me in human form,

For thousands of prostrations await their

fulfilment, Upon my forehead.”

R.R.  Khanna was also very fond of this verse of Sir Iqbal, which was written by him in his book “Shikwa aur Jawab-i-shikwa”

HH Priya Nath had at that time, written to Khushwant Singh that the ‘Haqueeqate Muntazar’ was very much on the planet earth in the form of Shri Nathji.  Many years ago in early 1930’s, R.R.  Khanna had also written the same thing to Sir Iqbal. Though Sir Iqbal couldn't meet Shri Nathji, Khushwant Singh did) Khushwant Singh, who received thousands of letters from his readers – had been good enough to reply to HH Priya Nath and to write: “I shall be very happy to meet Shri Bhola Nathji whenever he comes to Bombay.” Shri Nathji never went to Bombay, but Khushwant Singh, who had forgotten all about him by then, was destined to meet Shri Nathji at his home on the 7th of June, 1988, at Delhi, and to be instantly converted.

The verses of Sir Iqbal that HH Priya Nathji had read in Illustrated Weekly were from the book of Sir Iqbal which was translated into English by Khushwant Singh. Its name was: “Shikwa and Jawab-i-shikwa, Complaints and Answers. Iqbals Dialogue with Allah. “ This translation work by Khushwant Singh got hugely popular. It is still regarded as the best translation of Sir Iqbal’s works.

Khuswant Singh

Lovers of God, develop an intense desire for God and pray and worship Him in a hope to receive His Grace and Darshan. But Khushwant Singh was one entity whome God Himself desired to meet and give His grace.  God Himself had the intense desire to drenth this soul with His love. This can be best expressed in the following verse -

Rindon ki talab par Saakiye Kausar ko bhi josh aayaa

Paimaana bakaf aayaa maikhaanaa badosh aayaa

The quest of the Seekers so filled the Saki with Joy,

That he came, a glass in his hand, and the drinking tavern on his shoulders!

It was a verse that Khushwant Singh the noted author and journalist was to quote in his column in the Hindustan Times years later in March 1993, after Shri Nathji had gone from the planet earth in his physical form. Khuswant Singh recollected how Shri

Nathji had said these words to him when he went to meet Shri Nathji in July 1988–and how Shri Nathji embraced him, causing the man to break out into tears.

He wrote in 1993:

“Never in my life had I seen such a noor– a divine light. There was a spiritual glow on his face, an unearthly glow, the feeling of Love was so strong that I could not control my tears which burst out the moment he embraced me…I thought I had met with my tryst with destiny…when he passed away I thought I would never see anyone else like him again…till I met his son, Priya Nath, who had the same voice, the same flow of Urdu and Persian…”

Never again would the world see such a one as Shri Nathji who could convert hardened atheists in a single embrace. Never again would the world see such a one as Shri Nathji who had accepted all religions of the world as his own, and who was accepted by people of all religious faiths. Shri Nathji was a surging ocean of Love and all who came to him were drowned in that Ocean of Love to be lost forever in Him.

HH Priya Nath had written a letter to Khushwant Singh about the World Day of Love and the World Prayer Day. He was an internationally known author and columnist who purported to be an agnostic. HH Priya Nath had always had the feeling that Khushwant Singh, despite his outer agnosticism, was a very good person at heart, and that he would be very receptive to Shri Nathji.

There was a reply from Khushwant Singh to HH Priya Nath’s letter, in which he paid his respects to Shri Nathji and wished his mission all fulfilment.

There was a time in 1975 when he had been the editor of the Illustrated Weekly of India and was posted at Bombay. Priya Nath had read Khushwant Singh’s commentary on Sir Iqbal’s verse:

Kabhi ai Haqueeqate Muntazar, nazar aa libaase majaaz men

Ke hazaaron sajde tarrap rahe hain meri jabeene niyaaz men

O Thou Much Awaited Reality, appear before me in human form

For thousands of prostrations await their fulfilment upon my forehead

Priya Nath had written to Khushwant Singh that the Haqueeqate Muntazar was walking upon the earth in the form of Shri Nathji, and Khushwant Singh had written back that he would be very happy to see Shri Nathji if he ever came to Bombay.

Shri Nathji never went to Bombay, but Khushwant Singh – who had forgotten all about him by then – was destined to meet Shri Nathji at his home on the 7th of June, 1988, at Delhi, and to be instantly converted.

An advertisement about the World Prayer Day is given to the Illustrated Weekly of India – HH Priya Nath’s favorite magazine, which had Khushwant Singh as its Editor many years ago. HH Priya Nath suggests calling Khushwant Singh – a self-professed agnostic, for Shri Nathji’s darshan. Vijay Kapahi tries to see how it can be arranged, because a man of Khushwant Singh’s stature would not be likely to come to anyone’s home – far less to the house of a Spiritual Leader.

 Shri Nathji tells Priya Nath:

“I had a dream last night that Khushwant Singh came before me and fell instantly at my feet with devotion!”

Priya Nath also has a feeling that the man will receive ‘light’ from Shri Nathji. The atmosphere in Delhi is virtually agnostic and Khushwant Singh is a confirmed Delhi resident as well as a confirmed agnostic. But there is something in him, which Shri Nathji finds attractive – an inner goodness of the heart as revealed in his writings.

The religious bigots and the spiritual frauds of the world had made Khushwant Singh shy away from religion. However, HH Priya Nath was sure that if he ever came before Shri Nathji, he would be deeply affected and maybe even converted.

Shri Nathji sends a letter to Khushwant Singh through His emissary, Vijay Kapahi. Khushwant Singh is at first reluctant to come, as he does not believe in Prayers and God, but agrees to meet Shri Nathji at Shri Nathji’s house on the 7th of June 1988. This is a miracle in itself, as Khushwant Singh rarely goes to people’s residences to interview them. On the contrary, people come to him at his place. Priya Nath is certain the meeting will be a historic occasion. Shri Nathji is very happy and asks that the big room, and generally the house, be cleaned especially for Khushwant Singh.

The 7th of June, 1988 is, indeed, a historic day. Shri Nathji sits in his bed, in his reddish-orange head kerchief. His voice appears weak, but he is otherwise all right. At about 4 p.m. Shri Nathji listens to some of his old ghazals, which he wants Priya Nath to present to Khuswant Singh, who is to come at 5 p.m. At 5 p.m. sharp, Khushwant Singh enters the house escorted by his security guard and Vijay Kapahi. He is dressed in trousers and a light blue T-shirt. He appears to wear a frown on his face, which is actually due to a furrow on his forehead. He is otherwise, a humorist.

Priya Nath greets him at the door with the words:

“At last a long-cherished desire is being fulfilled!”

Khushwant Singh is taken by Priya Nath to Shri Nathji’s bedroom. He peeps in. Priya Nath announces:

“Khushwant Singhji aaye hain!

“Khushwant Singhji has come!”

Shri Nathji stops writing, and looks up at Khushwant Singh, and, then says in a very loud voice in Persian:

“Be- hijaabaana daraa az dare kaashaanaye maa

Ke kase nest vajuz darde to dar khaanaye maa”

“Enter thou within these doors without the least bit of hesitation,

For in my house, there is only a pain for Thee”

Suddenly, some Spiritual Power grips Khushwant Singh’s heart – and he rushes into the room and falls at Shri Nathji’  feet, bursting out into tears, even as Shri Nathji thumps him on his back and embraces him!

Shri Nathji says:

“Khushwant means ‘khush-bakht’ ‘khushwakt’ – meaning a beautiful time! The time of happiness has come!”

Despite his self-professed agnosticism, Khushwant Singh’s soul had been in search of the Truth. He had once taught Religion at the prestigious Princeton University in America, and had met almost all the saints and sages in India and abroad. He had found Reality nowhere. In an article he had written, he had said:

“These saints quote verses from Kabir and other scriptures – I know these writings more than they do. They fail to make any impression on me!”

Here he was face to face with God in human form. Shri Nathji had embraced him in a gesture of Divine Love. A long lost soul had come back to Him. Khushwant Singh’s soul vibrated with an hitherto inexperienced feeling. His soul recognised the Universal Soul of Shri Nathji. His intellect and mind were baffled, bewildered. He had never met such a Being before in his life. The tears that flowed from his eyes were tears of Union, perhaps one which had come about after ages of separation.

As Khushwant Singh sits down on a chair by the side of Shri Nathji’s bed, Shri Nathji’s Divine Flow of words goes out towards him in a torrent of Urdu and Persian verses interspersed with Hindi, Sanskrit and English. Khushwant Singh’s face lights up.

Shri Nathji’s spiritual radiance is so strong it lights up Khushwant Singh’s heart and soul. Khushwant Singh is so lost in Shri Nathji’s Divine Beauty and Radiance that he is scarcely listening, but asks occasionally.

 “Ye kiskaa hai?

“Whose verse is it?” –when Shri Nathji recites complex Urdu and Persian couplets.

Shri Nathji says:

“Aamad saihre nidaa za maikhaanae ma,

Ki ai rinde kharaabaatiye deevaanaye ma

Early in the morning I heard a voice from without my Tavern.

O, thou unbeliever, thou who lovest me -

Barkez ke pur kunam paimaanaa za mai

Zaan pesh ke pur kunand paimaanaye maa!

Arise! And let me fill thy cup with wine, Before the cup of life becomes filled!

Shri Nathji explains the Persian couplets.

Here was a long lost soul coming before the Perfect Master, and the Perfect Master beckoning him to come within his tavern and partake of the Divine Wine he had to offer. The long lost soul was Khushwant Singh and the Perfect Master was Shri Nathji.

Shri Nathji catches hold of Khushwant Singh’s hands and tells him:

“Main aap se bhee zyaada aapko pyaar kartaa hoon!

“I love you more than you love yourself!”

“My Dearest Khushwant Singh!” says Shri Nathji with overflowing love,

“Aap heere ho! Main aapko paihchaanta hoon!

“You are a diamond. I know your worth!”

Shri Nathji’s love for atheists was like the love of a mother for the little child that could not even recognize his mother. Shri Nathji recited another of his favourite verses:

“Makaane yaar door az man, na par daaram na paa ai dil

Ajab dar mushkil uftaadam chunaan tai saizam een manzil

“The House of my Beloved is far away, I have neither wings nor feet, O Heart!

A strange dilemma is this, how can I reach my destination!”

This was the plaintive cry of the human soul trying to reach the Universal Soul. It was like the drop trying to reach the ocean. Shri Nathji spoke at great length on the drop and the ocean:

“The drop of dew that lay glistering on the petal of a rose soon realised that this was not its home, even as a gust of wind shook the rose. The drop saw the dust below into which it would fall and perish, and fear filled its heart. It realised how insecure, how fearful, how helpless it was.

The conversation between Shri Nathji and Kushwant Singh has been given in great detail in Mahagranth Part three in pages 424 to 429.

Khushwant Singh left, asking for six photographs of Shri Nathji in the head kerchief, so that he could do a write-up on him. Even as Khushwant Singh left the room, his security guard sought permission to come inside and touch Shri Nathji’s feet. Shri Nathji blessed the security guard and patted him on his back.

At the gate of Shri Nathji’s house, Khushwant Singh asked HH Priya Nath for directions to reach Shri Nathji’s residence so that he could come at any time to secure Shri Nathji’s darshan again. HH  Priya Nath later embraced Shri Nathji for the magnificent work he had done–of changing an agnostic’s heart in a single glance. Only Shri Nathji was capable of such a divine feat. Not even Rama and Krishna had been able to convert agnostics – and had to destroy them!

Khushwant Singh was born 2 February 1915. He is a prominent Indian novelist and journalist. Singh's weekly column, "With Malice towards One and All", carried by several Indian newspapers, is among the most widely-read columns in the country.

An important Indo-Anglian novelist, Singh is best known for his trenchant secularism, his humor, and an abiding love of poetry. His comparisons of social and behavioral characteristics of Westerners and Indians are laced with acid wit. He served as editor of several well-known literary and news magazines, as well as two major broadsheet newspapers, through the 1970s and 1980s. He is a recipient of the Padma Vibhushan the second highest civilian award in India. The western angloindian Begger in his own words, with utmost biased notions for all communities.

 He was born in Hadali District Sargodha, Punjab (which now lies in Pakistan), in a Sikh family. His father, Sir Sobha Singh, was a prominent builder in Lutyens' Delhi. His uncle Sardar Ujjal Singh(1895–1983) was Ex. Governor of Punjab & Tamil Nadu.

He was educated at Modern School, New Delhi, Government College, Lahore, St. Stephen's College in Delhi and King's College, London, before reading for the Bar at the Inner Temple.

Kushwant Singh has edited Yojana, an Indian government journal; The Illustrated Weekly of India, a newsweekly; and two major Indian newspapers, The National Herald and the Hindustan Times. During his tenure, The Illustrated Weekly became India's pre-eminent newsweekly. After Singh's departure, it suffered a huge drop in readership.

 From 1980 through 1986, Singh was a member of Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian parliament. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 1974 for service to his country. In 1984, he returned the award in protest against the siege of the Golden Temple by the Indian Army.[5] In 2007, the Indian government awarded Khushwant Singh the Padma Vibhushan.

 Khuswant Singh is said to wake up at 4 am each day and write his columns by hand. His works range from political commentary and contemporary satire to outstanding translations of Sikh religious texts and Urdu poetry. Despite the name, his column "With Malice Towards One and All" regularly contains secular exhortations and messages of peace. In addition, he is one of the last remaining writers to have personally known most of the stalwart writers and poets of Urdu and Punjabi languages, and profiles his recently deceased contemporaries in his column. One of the most striking aspects of his weekly writings is his outright honesty; he will openly admit to his weaknesses and mistakes, along with an acceptance of his declining health and physical abilities in more recent times.

He is better viewed as an establishment liberal. He has remained resolutely positive on the promise of Indian democracy and worked via Citizen's Justice Committee floated by H. S. Phoolka who is a senior advocate of Delhi High Court.

He has a son, named Rahul Singh, and a daughter, named Mala. He is the paternal uncle of actress Amrita Singh. He stays in "Sujan Singh Park", near Khan Market New Delhi, Delhi's first apartment complex, built by his father in 1945, and named after his grandfather.

149, Fellows Road, London

These are actual photographs of 149, Fellows Road, in London, where Shri Nathji and Mahamateshwariji had stayed for a short time. It was a small apartment. Soon after Shri Nathji had left for London HH Priya Nath followed Him there. His mind had been very heavy after Shri Nathji's departure from the United States.  He still had three weeks of the summer vacation left, and he wished to spend it with Shri  Nathji and Mateshwari. Thus HH Priya Nathji also stayed here, as did HH Pran Nathji. The apartment at 149, Fellows Road was dark and gloomy. It was owned by a Sikh who seldom took, much care of it, and Mahamateshwari had to share the kitchen with his wife.

As we can see it the pictures, the old row houses was pulled down and now some row house in the lane have been pulled down and made into a modern apartment row housing complex. I have given the photo of an original row house which stands next to the modern house. This gives us an idea of the structure of the original house where Shri Nathji had stayed.

To honor the privacy of the present occupants of the house their identity has not been intruded and revealed by me in this article. Actual Photographs of the house are taken from the street. Close up aerial photos and Small scale satellite photos are also taken from different angles. Also I have superimposed the map of London, in one satellite photo so that its exact location can be ascertained. The house is marked as A in some photos, for the 
purpose of identification
 

These are the photos of the Fellows Road on which this house is located.