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| Born | 1950 (age 74–75) Mussoorie, Uttarakhand, India |
| Occupation | Author and Columnist |
| Partner | Salman Taseer - 1980 [1] Ajit Gulabchand [2] |
| Children | Aatish Taseer |
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Tavleen Singh (born 1950) is an Indian columnist, political reporter and writer.
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.[ citation needed ]
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. [ when? ]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]
Singh has a son, writer Aatish Taseer, with former Pakistani politician Salman Taseer. [1] [7] [8]
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