Tavleen Singh - Bangalore Literature Festival (BLF)

Bio

Tavleen Singh is an author, journalist and TV anchor. Her latest book, Durbar, is an up-close revealing account of our political past that holds crucial lessons for today’s India.

She currently writes three weekly columns. One in English that appears in the Indian Express, one in Hindi that appears in India Today and a third column in English that is syndicated to various newspapers in India. In 1997 she anchored Ek Din, Ek Jeevan for Star Plus. It was a weekly programme that ran for two years. She then anchored Two’s Company for Doordarshan which ran for more than fifty episodes and Dateline India for the BBC. For NDTV she anchored Indianama in Hindi and India Inc in English.

She is also the author of Kashmir: A Tragedy of Errors, published in 1995; Lollipop Street: Why India Will Survive her Politicians, published in 1999; and Political and Incorrect, published in 2007.