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Roopinder Singh, a well known journalist, author and presently working as Deputy Editor of the English daily newspaper, The Tribune, published from Chandigarh, India, was born on 21st July 1960 in Shimla (Himachal Pradesh, India), in the house of Giani Gurdit Singh and Inderjit Kaur Sandhu. His father was a famous Punjabi author and his mother, Inderjit Kaur Sandhu, is a well-known academic. She was Vice Chancellor of Punjabi University, Patiala, India. He studied in St. John’s High School, Chandigarh; St Francis School, Amritsar; and Yadavindra Public School, Patiala, where he earned his Senior Cambridge ‘O’ level certificate. At St Stephen’s College, Delhi, he read his BA Philosophy (Honors) and MA Philosophy degrees. Before joining The Tribune, in 1991, where he heads the internet edition (launched in 1998) and is in-charge of the Spectrum and Sunday Reading, Saturday Extra, Real Estate and Jobs & Careers supplements. He had worked as Assistant Editor, Indian Observer, New York. His fields of specialization are Sikh history and culture, information technology, and education. He is the author of four major books in English, including a critically acclaimed volume on the founder of Sikh religion, Guru Nanak Dev, and a volume on Sikh heritage (Sikh Heritage: Ethos and Relics, Co-authored by bhayee Sikander Singh). He has also written a biography of his father Giani Gurdit Singh (24 February 1923 – 17 January 2007) and of Marshal of the Indian Air Force, Arjan Singh. This book, published in 2002, was first biography of a MIAF Arjan Singh the legendary pilot who is India’s first Air Force Field Marshal. He has also contributed a large number of articles and reviewed a number of books (as appearing in the Tribune). S. Roopinder Singh is definitely a role model in the sphere of journalism. As an author of Sikh History and culture, he occupies a prominent place in this sphere among the Sikhs. He lives in Chandigarh, Punjab.