- He received the Padma Vibhushan, India's second-highest civilian award.
- He turned a minor magazine, the Illustrated Weekly of India, into a journalistic force, and also ran two newspapers, the Hindustan Times and the National Herald.
- Journalist and novelist.
- He was a prolific writer whose work included serious histories, joke collections, and one of post-Independence India's great novels, "Train to Pakistan". He was one of India's best-known writers for more than six decades.
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