Aarti Tikoo Singh
Aarti Tikoo Singh is an Indian journalist who's contributed significantly towards documenting the Kashmir conflict.
Early life and education
Tikoo was born in the Anantnag district of the Kashmir Valley of Jammu and Kashmir, India, into a Kashmiri Pandit family. After the ethnic cleansing of Kashmiri Hindus from the Kashmir Valley by Islamist militants in the early 1990s, her family was forced to move to Jammu. She studied at the University of Jammu and then graduated with a master's degree in international affairs from Columbia University in New York City. and starting her career she went to New Delhi and is currently residing there.Aarti Tikoo is married to Harbir Singh, a Sikh and former politician of the Aam Aadmi Party.
Career
As a reporter, she has worked in conflict zones across India such as Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Assam.After working with dailies in India such as Hindustan Times and as senior assistant editor with The Times of India, she worked as a foreign and security affairs editor at the Indo-Asian News Service agency. In August 2021, she founded The New Indian. Singh has over 20 years of experience in journalism, focusing on international relations and conflicts. She reported from the state of Jammu and Kashmir, a conflict-ridden state for almost seven years, covering politics, violence, governance and human stories. Singh represented in a United States Congressional hearing on Kashmir.