Gursharan Kaur Gujral is the wife of the former Prime Minister of India, Manmohan Singh. Let’s see his age, family and biography.
Biography/Wiki
Gursharan Kaur was born on 13 September 1937 (age 81 years) in Jalandhar, British India (now Jalandhar, Punjab, India). She did her primary schooling from Singh Sabha school for girls and her secondary schooling from Guru Nanak Kanya Pathshala, Amritsar. After finishing school, she went to Government College for Women, Patiala for graduation. After that, he enrolled himself in Khalsa College, Amritsar for Bachelor of Teaching (BT).
Physical appearance
Gursharan Kaur is 5 feet tall and weighs around 64 kg. This graceful woman has black eyes and white hair.
Gursharan Kaur
Family, Caste & Husband
Gursharan hails from a middle-class trading business Sikh family rooted in Dhakam village in Jhelum district. She is the daughter of Chattar Singh Gujral, former Engineer at Burmah-Shell. His mother is Sardarni Bhagwanti Kaur, a housewife. He has one younger brother and four younger sisters.
She married the 13th Prime Minister of India, Manmohan Singh on 14 September 1958. They had three daughters, Amrit Singh, Daman Singh, and Upinder Singh.
Gursharan Kaur with her husband Manmohan Singh
Amrit Singh is a Human Rights lawyer by profession.
Gursharan Kaur’s daughter Amrit Singh
Daman Singh is a writer.
Daughter of Gursharan Kaur Daman Singh
Upinder Singh is a historian.
Gursharan Kaur’s daughter Upinder Singh
Gursharan Kaur with her family
Net worth
His net worth is around ₹11 crore (as on 2014).
Facts
- He is a vegetarian and Odia Cuisines are his all time favourite.
- He likes to sing Gurbani, travel, and read in his spare time.
- He prefers to buy food from Mother Dairy.
- From his childhood, he had a penchant for games and kirtans.
- She aspires to be a school teacher.
- He is devoted to his religion and quite famous for singing Gurbani verses.
- His father had to move to Nowshera near Peshawar in Pakistan when he was only a few months old. In 1947, when he was 10 years old, his family was quite lucky to have escaped the massacre during the partition of India while moving from Lahore to Amritsar.
- After tying the knot with Manmohan Singh, the couple started their life in Sector 11, Chandigarh. He started singing kirtans and songs for All India Radio. In 1961, she along with her daughter Upinder Singh and her husband went to England; because her husband has qualified for a doctoral scholarship from Nuffield College, Oxford, England.
Gursharan Kaur And Manmohan Singh In Their Youth
- When her husband was appointed Prime Minister of India in 2004, she did not know him directly from him, but from the news channels that broadcast the breaking news.
- In 2014, a book titled ‘Strictly Personal: Manmohan and Gursharan’ was written by his daughter, Daman Singh.
Firm Manmohan and Personal Gursharan
- In the biographical political film ‘The Accidental Prime Minister (2019),’ the role of Gursharan Kaur is portrayed by Divya Seth while Anupam Kher represents Manmohan Singh.
Divya Seth as Gursharan Kaur and Anupam Kher as Manmohan Singh in The Accidental Prime Minister
Categories: Biography
Source: SCHOOL TRANG DAI
