Daman Singh is an Indian author and novelist. She is the daughter of former Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
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Daman Singh was born on Wednesday, September 4, 1963 (age 59 years; as of 2022) in Chandigarh. Her zodiac sign is Virgo. In 1966, Manmohan Singh and his family moved to New York, where he worked at UNCTAD.
Manmohan Singh with his daughters Apinder Singh and Deman Singh at Coney Island, New York in 1967
However, Manmohan and his wife Gursharan wanted their daughters to grow up in India with Indian values. So they returned to India. She did her primary education at Presentation Convent High School and later attended the Convent of Jesus and Mary in New Delhi. Speaking about his childhood in an interview, he said:
I grew up in Delhi and had a fairly sheltered, protected childhood. Life consisted of school and home. I went to a women’s school, a nunnery, where there was strict discipline. It was an unspoken rule that one had to perform well, so I studied pretty hard. I had two sisters at home for company. We lived in a government bungalow in a sparsely populated area, so we generally lacked friends. This meant we had a lot of time on our hands. My interests were reading, gardening and watching nature.’
Daman grew up with two sisters and all three were voracious readers, something their father instilled in them. In an interview, he recalled his childhood memories and said:
Our most interesting outing was when Dad took us to a bookstore. Our birthday presents were always books. There was a time when we lived within walking distance of the Delhi Gymkhana Club, which has an excellent library. “I remember fighting with my sisters about library cards, borrowing two books, rushing home and racing to finish them so I could borrow the next two.”
Childhood picture of Upinder Singh, Daman Singh and Amrit Singh
In 1984, he completed his bachelor’s degree. (Hons.) in Mathematics from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi. After that he went on to do MBA from Anand Institute of Rural Management (IRMA), Gujarat.
Physical appearance
Height (approx): 5′4″
Hair color: black
Eye Color: Black
Binu John, Amit Barua and Satish Jacob host Deman Singh at the Kovalam Literary Festival in Trivandrum
family
Amrit Singh Kohli belongs to a Sikh family.
parents and siblings
His father, Manmohan Singh, is an Indian politician from the Congress Party who was the 13th Prime Minister of India. His mother’s name is Gursharan Kaur. She is the second eldest among her sisters. His younger sister, Amrit Singh, is an American human rights lawyer, and his elder sister, Upinder Singh, is a historian.
Daman Singh with his parents Manmohan Singh and Gursharan Kaur
Manmohan Singh with daughter Apinder Singh (in red circle) and wife Gursharan Kaur
Deman Singh’s younger sister, Amrit Singh
husband and children
She is married to IPS officer Ashok Patnaik, who was the executive director of the National Intelligence Network of India (NATGRID). They have a son together, Rohan.
Daman Singh’s husband, Ashok Patnaik
Manmohan Singh family portrait showing Deman Singh’s son Rohan (seated in the center with Gursharan Kaur)
Career
He worked in rural development for 20 years before becoming a full-time author. While attending IRMA Gujarat, he did fieldwork in Bikaner district of Rajasthan. Later he started working in rural development and traveled extensively in Rajasthan, Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar (now Jharkhand) and less extensively in West Bengal, Orissa and Andhra Pradesh. He was associated with a non-governmental organization for the promotion of deserts. Speaking in an interview about his extensive experience in various rural villages in India, he said:
I traveled a lot, even with bullock carts. It gave me exposure to people. By the way, I have traveled in united Bihar – especially the region that is now Jharkhand. I came to Patna for the first time, but the rural background I found in Jharkhand is available in my books.”
Later he moved to Mizoram. In 1996, he published his first book, The Last Frontier: People and Forests in Mizoram. The book traces the environmental history of Mizoram from the nineteenth century through colonial rule and the post-independence period, while exploring the relationship between people and their environment.
After returning to Delhi, he again worked with various NGOs for some time before joining Tata Energy Research Institute (TERI) where he worked as a freelance consultant for 6 years. His career as a consultant ended when his father became the Prime Minister of India in 2004. Speaking about the same in an interview, he said:
But my career as a rural development consultant was over. I could not continue my career because when I got to the countryside I was garlanded and people were waiting. I became a VIP when I felt ordinary.”
He wrote his first novel Nine Nine (2008), which revolves around the lives of three characters Anjali, Paro and Tara, full of disturbing events, broken partnerships and losses that ultimately lead to their transformation.
In 2010, he published the novel The Sacred Grove. The novel tells the story of a 12-year-old boy named Ashwin with his pregnant mother and courageous father. As the story unfolds, Ashwin’s dreams of cricket stardom come under attack when riots erupt in his quiet town.
In 2014, she wrote Strictly Personal: Manmohan and Gursharan to debunk the many myths surrounding her famous politician father, Manmohan Singh, and his wife, Gursharan Kaur. Other books he has written include Kitty’s War (2018).
Facts/Trivia
- A fan of the pre-cell phone era, Deman Singh has been without a cell phone for a long time and believes it has kept him sane. In an interview he said,
I am very lucky to have a husband who has a steady job. I told him a few years ago, now you earn and feed us. I’m going to follow my dreams. I quit my busy career. I don’t have a mobile phone. I think it makes me sane… when I see other people with cell phones, I wonder, oh my god, how do they live! I just couldn’t. I live in my world, I see what I want to see. If I were in another life, of course my son would have to contact me. But now I can happily work without it. My life is so simple that I manage pretty well without a cell phone. I find other people’s lives difficult, and I’ve simplified my life a lot… In many ways, I’ve given up on a complicated life.”
- An excerpt from Daman’s book Strictly Personal: Manmohan and Gursharan (2014) reveals that Manmohan Singh’s family home in Delhi’s Ashok Vihar was attacked by a mob during the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. Killed on 31 October 1984 by his Sikh bodyguards for authorizing Operation Blue Star at the Golden Temple in Amritsar earlier that year. Manmohan Singh’s eldest daughter Upinder Singh and her husband Vijay Tankha were living in the household at the time. When the mob came close to burning down their family home, Vijay Tankha tricked them into believing that the house belonged to him. As he was a Hindu, the mob spared the house. The family eventually sold the house in 1986 because several houses in the area still bore signs of disturbance.
- When his elder sister, Appinder, chose to study history, Manmohan was not particularly happy with her decision. In his book, Daman revealed that Manmohan had a low opinion of social science disciplines other than his own. Manmohan’s occasional careless remarks about the study of history hurt Upinder. Therefore, Daman took up mathematics to please his father. However, when Daman moved to IRMA, his father was still displeased.
- In an interview, he revealed that he joined IRMA Gujarat after breaking his leg while skiing, which ruled out the possibility of going to IIT Kanpur. She said,
I wanted to continue my studies in mathematics, but unfortunately I could not get a scholarship to study in the US or the UK. My other option was to go to IIT Kanpur (which had an impressive flying club). However, I broke my leg while skiing and was unable to attend the interview in Kanpur. So it was either Maths at Delhi University or IRMA.
- Earlier he was a non-vegetarian and later became a vegetarian.
- In April 2019, Bharti Jain, a journalist with The Times of India, tweeted serious allegations of fraud and the complicity of former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, saying that her daughters Deman and Amrit were receiving salaries from Nalanda University (NU) while in the US. In a series of tweets, Bharti Jain leveled serious allegations of financial misconduct and nepotism against Nobel laureate Amartya Senator. The fact-checking website Alt News Desk later clarified that the statement was false.
Two more faculty, Emeritus, Daman Singh & Amrit Singh were appointed. Manmohan Singh’s Middle and Younger Daughters.. They Stayed in US While Taking Salaries
— Bharti Jain (@bhartijainTOI) April 28, 2019
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