Kinng Manmohan Singh as Akshay Kumar and Sonia Gandhi as Katrina Kaif in a popular email forward doing the rounds since the July 22 triumph

Khushwant Singh

Kinng of Outspokenness

The acrid wit. The trenchant secularism. The no-holds barred attitude. Even at 93, Khushwant Singh remains uninhibited like few other public figures our country has seen. One of India’s most prolific writers, Singh is best known for his free-thinking ways — he’s a self-proclaimed agnostic who unashamedly confesses a love for whisky and women. Talking sex is a way of life in the Khushwant Singh scheme of things. Discussing pornography is not taboo. And he is the master of jokes, sometimes funny, sometimes sleazy. His ability to call a spade a spade without apology may make him ‘Not A Nice Man to Know’ for many, but that doesn’t deter the sprightly Sardar from voicing his opinion on just about everything.

When you need a line like “We have had so many donkeys as PM” or “Love is an ephemeral and illusive concept, it doesn’t last; lust lasts”, Singh is the go-to man.

Yuvraj Singh

Kinng of Style

He may be the most talented of all the Dada finds, smashing six sixes in a T20 over, but the dishy left-handed batsman is as much a Kinng of Style as he is a master of the 22 yards. An interesting mix of flamboyance and casual charm, stylebhai Yuvi became the pin-up boy of Indian cricket the moment he stormed into the blue huddle in 2000. His looks and confidence saw Yuvraj at many fashion weeks and endorsing brands by the dozen. The Team Mohali captain has demonstrated the same love for the limelight in his personal life — from a long romance with Kim Sharma to a short one with Deepika Padukone, this dude likes his arm candy to look as good as he does.

Rajesh Pratap Singh

Kinng of Minimalism

His clothes are to die for. Bling and OTT don’t find a place in his world. His designs are minimal, stark and classy. And he is humility personified (“I am simply a darzi,” he says). Fashion designer Rajesh Pratap Singh keeps the Singh banner flying high in the fashion world. He is one of the brightest of the designer pack and has carved a niche for himself (and his clothes). His successful showing at the Paris Fashion Week and his extravagant costumes for Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s opera Padmavati have further established this Singh as a name to reckon with in the fashion world.

Mona Singh

Kinng (or Queenn) of the Small Screen

We admired her as a model. We adored her as the gawky middle-class girl sporting braces and unflattering spectacles in the TRP grabber Jassi Jaissi Koi Nahin. And we simply couldn’t get enough of her when she danced her way into the audience’s hearts as the winner of the first edition of Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa. A Punjaban to the core, Mona ‘Jassi’ Singh’s infectious laughter and genuine warmth — and her impressive acting abilities, of course — have made her one of the most successful faces of the small screen.

Harbhajan Singh

Kinng of Craap

Courtesy the Slapgate controversy and the racism row, the Turbanator has been in the news recently for all things controversial and crappy. He made history of sorts when, in his avatar as a Mumbai Indian, he slapped his India team-mate and IPL opponent Sreesanth after a match.

Earlier this year, he was fined 50 per cent of his match fees by the ICC after he got embroiled in a racism controversy with Australian all-rounder Andrew Symonds in a Test match at Sydney. After spending weeks in the wilderness, Bhajji came back strong in the second Test match at Galle in Sri Lanka with a 10-wicket haul. We hope his dark days are behind him and he can bowl India to victory at Colombo.

Milkha Singh

Kinng of Track

The Flying Sikh — along with the Payyoli Express P.T. Usha — is India’s best known athlete. His best performance was his 1960 Olympics outing in Rome where he ran the 400m in record time during the heats, only to lose the bronze in the finals by a whisker. The Lyallpur-born runner also bagged golds at the Commonwealth and the Asian games, putting a medal-starved country on the world map of athletics.

Jeev Milkha Singh

Kinng of the Tee

Milkha Singh has passed on his sporting genes to his son, the talented golfer Jeev Milkha Singh. If his father is the Sprint Kinng, his 36-year-old offspring is the Swing Kinng. He started swinging it in 1993 and is the highest ranked Indian golfer at 66 on the Official World Golf Ranking chart.

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