Noted writer and journalist Khushwant Singh has passed away at the age of 99 on Thursday.
"He was fine and passed away peacefully at home on Thursday," his daughter Mala Singh said, reports Times of India.
His cremation will take place at Lodhi Crematorium at 4pm on Thursday, the report said.
Singh was best known for his trenchant secularism, his humor and an abiding love of poetry.
Born on February 2, 1915 in Hadali, now in Pakistan, Singh wrote classics such as "Train to Pakistan", "I Shall Not Hear the Nightingale" and "Delhi".
Singh came into prominence after India got independence from Britain in 1947.
He was a lawyer-turned-diplomat-turned-writer.
His autobiography, "Truth, Love and a Little Malice", was published by Penguin Books in 2002.
He was the editor of several literary and news magazines, including the Illustrated Weekly of India as well as two newspapers, the Hindustan Times and the National Herald, throughout the 1970s and 1980s.
In 2007, he was awarded the Padma Vibhushan.
