Tejeshwar Singh
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Tejeshwar Singh (31 January 1947 – 15 December 2007) was an Indian publisher, journalist, newscaster and theater activist.
Singh was the son of Indian diplomat Gurbachan Singh, who served as an envoy to Switzerland, Bhutan and Pakistan.[1] He graduated from The Doon School and went on to study at Balliol College, University of Oxford.[2]
Career
In 1981 he founded, along with George and Sara McCune, the Indian arm of the international publishing house Sage Publishing, which is now a prominent Indian publishing house.[1] However, Singh was most well known to Indians as a famous newsreader on the nationwide television network, Doordarshan, during the 1980s and early 1990s.[1] He reported discontinuing reading newspapers after Indira Gandhi declared emergency in India. He reported that Indira Gandhi personally approved the footage of Operation Blue Star in Golden Temple/Harmandir Sahib for news on Doordarshan.
He also acted as a main villain Deen Dayal in the well-known 1987 Hindi film Jalwa and played Ravi Uncle in Chai Pani Etc. in 2004.
Tejeshwar Singh died of a heart attack at his home in Mussoorie, India, on 15 December 2007.[1] He was 60 when he died.[1]
