Tavleen Singh | |
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Born | 1950 (age 61–62) Mussoorie, India |
Occupation | Author and Columnist |
Nationality | Indian |
Partner(s) | Salman Taseer (1980) |
Children | Aatish Taseer (born 1980) |
Tavleen Singh ( तवलीन सिंह् ) is a noted Indian syndicated columnist and political reporter and writer.[1][2][3]
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Singh was born in Mussoorie in 1950 and studied at the Welham Girls School. Later she did a short-term Journalism course from the New Delhi Polytechnic in 1969.[1] She completed her education in India and started her career with a reporting job at 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 and went on to do several stories on communal riots, elections and wars. In those days such topics were covered mainly by male reporters.
She joined The Telegraph as Special Correspondent in 1982, mainly covering Punjab and Kashmir. She did the first known interview with Bhindranwale during this time and won the Sanskriti award in 1985 for her reporting of Punjab.
In 1985 and also in 1987 she became the South Asia correspondent of the Sunday Times, London. Subsequently she became a freelancer and started writing for India Today [4] and The Indian Express. Her column in The Indian Express became the first political column to be written by a woman.
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.
In 2002 she anchored the new weekly political discussion programme Dateline India produced by Karan Thapar, on BBC World.
Currently, she is with The Indian Express, for which she writes a weekly column, on Sundays.[5]
Her son, journalist-writer Aatish Taseer, born in 1980 in London [6] , whose father was Governor of Pakistani Punjab, Salman Taseer, was the author of the recently published book Stranger to History.