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.
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