Aarti Tikoo Singh is a senior assistant editor with The Times of India in New Delhi. She has a Masters in International Relations, International Economic Policy from New York’s Columbia University in 2009. Earlier, she worked as a journalist in Jammu and Kashmir for almost seven years. She is a Kashmiri Pandit. Aarti is also part of Delhi Freethinkers, an atheist group. She has been married to a non-practising Sikh Atheist since 2005.