Tavleen Singh (born 1950) is an Indian

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, political

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and writer.

Biography

Singh was born in

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in 1950 in a

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family. She studied at the

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. She did a short-term Journalism course from the New Delhi Polytechnic in 1969. She graduated from

St. Bede's College, Shimla St. Bede's College is a women's college in Navbahar, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, India. The college was originally established as a teacher's training institute in 1904 by the Religious of Jesus and Mary. Today, it offers courses in Commerce, Art ...

. She completed her education in India and started her career with a reporting job at the ''Evening Mail'',

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(England), where she worked and trained for two and a half years under the Westminster Press/Thompson training scheme. Singh returned to India in 1974 to work with ''

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'' as a

. She joined ''

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'' as a

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in 1982. In 1985 and also in 1987 she became the South Asia

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of the ''

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'',

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. Subsequently, she became a

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and started writing for ''

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'' and ''

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''. In 1990 she began her stint with television by heading Plus Channel's Delhi bureau. Singh presented two video magazines called ''People Plus'' and ''Business Plus''. She has done ''Ek Din Ek Jeevan'', a Hindi weekly programme for

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. , she is with ''

'' and ''

The Hitavada ''The Hitavada'' is an English daily newspaper circulating mainly in Central parts of India. Founded in 1911 by freedom fighter Gopal Krishna Gokhale in Nagpur, the newspaper was taken over by Purohit and Company, owned by Banwarilal Purohit, th ...

''. She writes a weekly column for them, on Sundays. In 1988, she was honoured with the Chameli Devi Jain Award for Outstanding Women Mediaperson.

Personal life

Singh has a son, writer

Aatish Taseer Aatish Ali Taseer (born 27 November 1980) is a British-American writer and journalist. Early life Taseer was born in London, England, to Pakistani businessman and politician Salman Taseer and Indian journalist Tavleen Singh. His parents had a ...

, with former Pakistani politician

Salman Taseer Salman Taseer ( Punjabi and ur, ); ( 4 January 2011) was a Pakistani businessman and politician, who served as the 26th Governor of Punjab from 2008 until his assassination in 2011. A member of the Pakistan Peoples Party since the 1980s, h ...

Works

* ''Kashmir: A Tragedy of Errors''. Viking, 1995. . * ''Lollipop Street: Why India Will Survive Her Politicians''. Viking, 1999. . * ''Fifth Column''. Viking, . * ''Political and Incorrect: The real India, warts and all'' . Harpercollins. 2008. .Tavleen Singh’s latest book compiles contemporary history
Financial Express, 22 July 2008. * ''Durbar''. Hachette, 2012. . * ''India's Broken Tryst''. Harpercollins, 2016. * ''Messiah Modi: A Tale of Great Expectations'', 2020

References

External links

Tavleen Singh's official website
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