Tavleen Singh
Tavleen Singh, prominent Indian-English Scholar, who is one of India's best known columnists and political reporters. She was born in Mussoorie in 1950 and educated at Welham Girls High School, a boarding school for girls located at the foothills of the Himalayas in Dehradun, India. A school which promotes understanding of all religions and cultures and saw to it that community service was part of it's students curriculim. She was part of an exchange program and worked and trained as a reporter for two and a half years in a small English newspaper. Returning to India in 1974 an garnered a job in what had been a male dominated profession as a reporter for th Statesman. Next she was a Special Correspondent with The Telegraph starting in 1982, covering Punjab and Kashmir. Ms. Singh did the first known interview with Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale shortly before the Invasion of the Golden Temple. Her reporting on Punjab won her the 'Sanskriti' Award in 1985.
In 1985 and 1987 she became the South Asia correspondent of the London Sunday Times.
She might best be called an equal opportunity reporter as she has skewered the radicals of intolerant religionists on an equal basis and politicians have also learned to both hate her or love her as well.
In fact, in reading, to put this page together (it was the smallest article I've yet to come accross on this site) I have often come across the phrase - 'You may Love her or hate her, but you can’t ignore her'. She has made the list of at least one Hindutvist group as an enemy of India.
Her son Aatish Taseer who was born in Mumbai, is also the son of Salman Taseer, a Muslim from Pakistan who is currently the Govenor of West Punjab (Pakistan) 2008. Salman is one of Pakistan's leading business Moguls and also is an author, as well as the owner of The Daily Times, which claims to be the leading paper of Pakistan. He has been described as a media baron and a businessman who specialised in finding Gulf money for profitable ventures in Pakistan.
Aatish, a Sikh, was at one time, all but engaged, to Lady Gabriella Windsor (Gabriella Marina Alexandra Ophelia Windsor) an English journalist and member of the Royal family who is 23rd in the line of sucession. Princess Michael of Kent (née Baroness Marie-Christine von Reibnitz) has described Aatish as one of the handsomest men in the world. Aatist and his father's relationship is reported to be 'strained'.
Aatish Taseer is also a well known journalist who was at one time a reporter for the Time Magazine NYC.
Tavleen Singh is the author of three books:
- Lollipop Street: Why India Will Survive Her Politicians 1999
- Kashmir: A Tragedy of Errors.
- Political and Incorrect: The Real India, Warts and All
