Background
Singh was born in Mussoorie in 1950 in a Sikh family.
(Durbar is a first-person account of some of the most impa...)
Durbar is a first-person account of some of the most impactful incidents that took place at the hands of the central government it begins with an account of the emergency in 1975, when the author began her career as a junior reporter with the statesman, and moves on to chronicle the instabilities of the times that followedthe emergency was a landmark event that set the course of the spiral of incidents that followed it: indira gandhi's assassination followed by rajiv gandhi's ascent to power, a period fraught with struggles and turbulence in the government he was accused of following nepotism in the corridors of power, and was associated with many controversies such as the the anti-sikh riots, the bhopal gas tragedy and the bofors scam, which served to tarnish the impeccable image of the congress in the days to comedurbar provides a vivid detailing of an insider's account of some of the most troubled times our country has been through and is, in a sense, a compelling history of our pastit was published in the year 2013 by hachette india and is available in paperback key features: the book is an interesting chronicle of some of the most monumental events in india's pastit is authored by someone who has been closely involved with some of the most authoritative leaders in the corridors of power
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Singh was born in Mussoorie in 1950 in a Sikh family.
She studied at the Welham Girls School. She graduated from Saint 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.
She did a short-term Journalism course from the New Delhi Polytechnic in 1969. 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 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 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 for them, on Sundays.
Tavleen has a son named Aatish Taseer with late Pakistani politician Salman Taseer with whom she had an affair.
(Durbar is a first-person account of some of the most impa...)