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Shahid Siddiqui

Shahid Siddiqui

Shahid Siddiqui grew up in the bylanes of Shahjahanabad, the walled city of Delhi, in an atmosphere of poetry, culture and creativity. He belongs to a family of illustrious journalists and writers. His father, Abdul Waheed Siddiqui, was a prominent leader in the freedom movement. He started writing in Urdu at the early age of twelve and translated many English classics into Urdu. He published his first path-breaking fortnightly Waqiat in 1971 and later went on to publish Nai Duniya, a weekly, in 1973 when he was still a student at Delhi University. Shahid did his master's in political science from Delhi University and taught there from 1974 to 1986. He was a political activist since his school days and was in the forefront of opposing Emergency in 1975. His activism brought him into politics and he was a member of the Rajya Sabha from 2002-2008. Although he has been writing in English, Urdu and Hindi for various newspapers and magazines in the past, The Golden Pigeon is his first novel in English.

Books by Shahid Siddiqui