Turbaned Tornado is the biography of Fauja Singh (born on 1 April 1911), a centenarian British Sikh. He is a marathon runner of Indian descent and a world record holder in his age bracket. Adidas’s poster boy once, Fauja Singh became the world’s oldest half marathon runner when he completed the 2010 Luxembourg InterFaith Marathon at the age of 99. Turbaned Tornado captures Fauja Singh’s zest for life and his invincible spirit. It traces the runner’s roots and tries to capture his life’s journey, understanding the impact of Fauja on the world around him. For Fauja ‘Impossible is Nothing’ as he wishes to run a marathon at 100.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Khushwant Singh
Khushwant Singh was born in 1915 in Hadali, Punjab. After university education in Lahore and London, he practiced at the Lahore High court before joining the Indian Ministry of External Affairs. He began a distinguished career as a journalist with all India Radio in 1951. Since then he has been founder-editor of Yojana, editor of the Illustrated Weekly of India and the Hindustan Times and chief editor of New Delhi. Today he is India’s best known columnist. Khushwant Singh has also had an extremely successful career as a writer. His published works include the classic two-volume A History of the Sikhs, the novels Train to Pakistan, Delhi and The Company of Women, his autobiography, Truth, Love and a Little Malice, and a number of translated works and non-fiction books on Delhi, nature, Sikh history and religion, and current affairs. Khushwant Singh was Member of Parliament from 1980 to 1986. Among other honours he was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 1974 by the President of India (he returned the decoration in 1984 in protest against the Union Government’s siege of the Golden Temple, Amritsar).
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