"Stranger to History: A Son's Journey through Islamic Lands" was published in 2009. In the book, the author visits several Islamic countries in an attempt to understand modern times in these places. The journey is immensely personal, because he also visits his estranged father in Pakistan and is trying to come to terms with his own Islamic identity.
If the author's mother is noted journalist Tavleen Singh, who is the father?
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Salmaan Taseer, the Governor of Punjab (Pakistan), who was assassinated by a member of his own security detail. Read more about the book and the circumstances of Aatish Taseer's life
in this Outlook review by Khushwant Singh.
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