Aatish Taseer

Aatish Ali Taseer (born 27 November 1980) is a British-American writer and journalist of Indian origin. Taseer has worked for Time, and as a freelance journalist also written for Prospect, The Sunday Times, The Sunday Telegraph, Financial Times, TAR magazine and Esquire. Taseer's opinion pieces have garnered both attention and critical appreciation. David Goodhart drew attention to Taseer's piece on feudal Pakistan, Travels with the mango king in his article "Prospect's 10 Most Influential Articles". In 2010, he wrote a piece on the controversy surrounding the possible construction of the "Ground Zero Mosque" in Manhattan, Tolerance test for New York