Tavleen Singh Explained

Tavleen Singh
Birth Place:Mussoorie, Uttarakhand, India
Occupation:Author and Columnist
Partner:Salman Taseer - 1980[1]
Ajit Gulabchand[2]
Children:Aatish Taseer

Tavleen Singh (born 1950) is an Indian columnist, political reporter and writer.

Biography

Singh was born in Mussoorie in 1950 in a Sikh family.[3] She studied at Welham Girls' School.[4] She did a short-term journalism course from the New Delhi Polytechnic in 1969. She graduated from St. Bede's College, Shimla.

She completed her education in India and started her career with a reporting job at the Evening Mail, Slough (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 The Statesman as a reporter. She joined The Telegraph as a Special Correspondent in 1982. In 1985 and 1987 she was the South Asia correspondent of the Sunday Times, London.

Subsequently, she became a freelancer and started writing for India Today and The Indian Express.

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 STAR Plus.

, she is with The Indian Express and The Hitavada. She writes a weekly column on Sundays.[5] In 1988, she was honoured with the Chameli Devi Jain Award for Outstanding Woman Mediaperson.[6]

Personal life

Singh has a son, writer Aatish Taseer, with former Pakistani politician Salman Taseer.[7] [8]

Works

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: A son in search of his father. 6 January 2011. Mid Day.
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  3. Web site: A Son's Journey: Aatish Taseer. https://web.archive.org/web/20160305015558/http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2011-01-05/news/28425010_1_salman-taseer-muslims-aatish-taseer. 5 March 2016. 5 January 2011. The Economic Times.
  4. Web site: Old school skirt . 24 June 2006 . Indian Express. 5 April 2023 .
  5. http://www.indianexpress.com/columnist/tavleensingh/ Tavleen Singh
  6. Book: Mass Media in India. Publications Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India. 24. 1990.
  7. News: UK author calls India citizenship loss 'sinister' . 8 November 2019 . 8 November 2019.
  8. News: Taseer stripped of OCI card . 8 November 2019 . www.telegraphindia.com . en.
  9. http://www.financialexpress.com/news/tavleen-singhs-latest-book-compiles-contemporary-history/338504/ Tavleen Singh’s latest book compiles contemporary history