Daman Singh (born 4 September 1963) is an Indian writer and daughter of former

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Manmohan Singh Manmohan Singh (26 September 1932 – 26 December 2024) was an Indian economist, bureaucrat, academician, and statesman, who served as the prime minister of India from 2004 to 2014. He was the fourth longest-serving prime minister after Jaw ...

Personal life

Singh was born on 4 September 1963 in

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and Gursharan Kaur. She has two sisters, Upinder Singh and Amrit Singh. In 1966, Singh and her family moved to New York City, where her father worked for UNCTAD. She is married to Ashok Patnaik ( IPS officer of 1983 batch) since 1991 who was also the

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of the National Intelligence Grid (NATGRID) of India. Together, they have a son, Rohan.

Books

* ''The Last Frontier: People And Forests in Mizoram'' (1996) * ''The Sacred Grove'' (2012) * ''Nine by Nine'' (2013) * ''Strictly Personal: Manmohan and Gursharan'' (2014)

References

Living people Children of prime ministers of India 21st-century Indian biographers Indian women non-fiction writers Indian women biographers Indian women novelists 21st-century Indian women writers 21st-century Indian novelists Punjabi Sikhs Women writers from Punjab, India Novelists from Punjab, India Manmohan Singh 1963 births {{India-writer-stub