Sarina Singh

Singh's father came to Australia in 1955 to study medicine at the University of Melbourne. In an editorial, Singh wrote that when her father arrived in Australia from India via Fiji, where his own father had moved the family in the aftermath of World War I, Australia was still "ruled by the now-infamous White Australia policy." She described herself as "an Australian of Indian descent, who has lived in Melbourne most of her life". Singh also wrote that her parents valued quality education and that she and her brothers were educated in private schools in Melbourne. She studied at Melbourne's prestigious Lauriston Girls' School and her brothers attended Scotch College. Both of her brothers are Doctors of Medicine.

Singh has contributed to around 50 Lonely Planet books (usually as senior author) including many editions of the bestselling India guidebook, as well as Rajasthan, Aboriginal Australia & the Torres Strait Islands, North India, Mauritius, Réunion & Seychelles, Pakistan & the Karakoram Highway, South India, Australia & New Zealand, Delhi, Melbourne, Sydney and Africa.{{cite web|url=https://auth.lonelyplanet.com/profiles/sarinasingh|title=Lonely Planet|access-date=21 April 2015}} She has been interviewed by dozens of broadcasters, including the BBC and ABC, for her travel expertise. She has also written travel articles for various global publications including National Geographic Traveler[https://web.archive.org/web/20080825202623/http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/places/places-of-a-lifetime/contributors.html "Places of a Lifetime Contributors"], Part of the Places of a Lifetime series, National Geographic Traveler Magazine, retrieved on 25 January 2010. and Condé Nast Traveller. National Geographic refers to Singh as an "India expert". Singh was commissioned by Maharana Arvind Singh Mewar of Udaipur to write, Polo in India: a tribute to Maharaj Prem Singh.{{cite book|title=Polo in India: a tribute to Maharaj Prem Singh|editor=Sarina Singh|publisher=Lustre Press: Roli Books|year=2000}}{{cite web|url=http://www.eternalmewar.in/User/Governance/Publications/Publication_Grants.aspx|title=Publication Grants|work=Eternal Mewer, House of Mewer|access-date=26 January 2010}}

In 2002 Singh co-wrote and co-directed a 52-minute television documentary program, Beyond the Royal Veil. The documentary, a German-Australian co-production for the Australian public television network, SBS, is set in India and depicts the changing roles of two royal families in former princely states and the challenges they face to stay viable in modern-day India. The documentary premiered at the Melbourne International Film Festival, before screening on television in Germany and on SBS in Australia.

• Singh, Sarina, et al., India (Lonely Planet Country Guide), Lonely Planet, trade paperback, 1244 pages, 13th Updated edition (1 October 2009), {{ISBN|978-1-74179-151-8}}
• Singh, Sarina, et al., South India (Lonely Planet Regional Guide), Lonely Planet, trade paperback, 576 pages, 5th edition (1 October 2009) {{ISBN|978-1-74179-155-6}}
• Singh, Sarina, et al., Pakistan & the Karakoram Highway (Country Guide), Lonely Planet, trade paperback, 432 pages, 7th edition (1 May 2008), {{ISBN|978-1-74104-542-0}}
• Singh, Sarina, et al., Aboriginal Australia & the Torres Strait Islands: Guide to Indigenous Australia, Lonely Planet (July 2001), trade paperback, 448 pages, {{ISBN|978-1-86450-114-8}}
• Singh, Sarina, et al., Lonely Planet Citiescape Delhi, Lonely Planet, (October 2006), hardcover, 93 pages, {{ISBN|978-1-74104-936-7}}
• Singh, Sarina, et al., Lonely Planet India: Haryana & Punjab, Lonely Planet (1 September 2009), (kindle re-release from India.)
• Singh, Sarina, et al., Lonely Planet Mauritius, Reunion & Seychelles, Lonely Planet (February 2001), trade paperback, 336 pages, 4th edition, {{ISBN|978-0-86442-748-9}}
• Singh, Sarina, et al., contributors; Sacred India, Lonely Planet (1999), hardcover, 166 pages, {{ISBN|978-1-86450-063-9}}
• Singh, Sarina, et al., India: Essential Encounters, September 2010, hardcover, {{ISBN|978-0-646-53051-2}}

• Polo in India: A Tribute to Maharaj Prem Singh, Roli Books, {{ISBN|978-81-7436-093-9}}
• India: Essential Encounters, commissioned by Richard I’Anson, {{ISBN|978-0646530512}}

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• [http://www.sarinasingh.com sarinasingh.com], Singh's official website.

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