New Delhi, Dec 21: Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh''s wife, Gurusharan Kaur released writer Khushwant Singh''s English rendering of Sikh hymns here last evening.

The book "Songs Of The Gurus" is a compilation of Gurubanis, or Sikh religious verses.

"This book is about the translations of Gurubanis into English poetry, which I am familiar with," Kaur said while releasing the book.

Khushwant Singh said that it was a compilation of his old translations.

"This is a collection of my old translations. I continued them doing off and on, it''s a compilation," he said.

Khushwant Singh is a renowned Indian novelist, journalist and historian, acclaimed for his sarcastic writing.

India conferred him with the civilian honour Padma Bhushan in 1974, which he gave back a decade later in protest against the 1984 siege on the Golden Temple in Amritsar.

His best known literary works include novels Train to Pakistan (a novel based on the India-Pakistan partition) and "In the Company of Women. (ANI)