Turbaned Tornado: The Oldest Marathon Runner Fauja Singh - Softcover

Khushwant Singh

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8129118424 ISBN 13: 9788129118424

Publisher: Rupa & Co., 2011

Synopsis

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 this title

About the Author:

Born on 11 July 1972, in a leading citrus growing family of Punjab, Khushwant Singh developed writing as an alternate career at the age of twenty-four. He is the author of best-selling Sikhs Unlimited, a travelogue from UK to USA featuring extraordinary Sikhs. His Sunday column, Punjabi by Nature in The Hindustan Times on the passions, problems and idiosyncracies of the region, is widely read. An alumnus of St. John s High School, Chandigarh and Department of Mass Communication, Punjab University, he presently stays in Hoshiarpur district at his kinnow farm with his wife Harmala and son Adiraj.

About this edition

• Publisher: Rupa & Co.
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 8129118424
• ISBN 13: 9788129118424
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144