Suleman Din is a Canadian born-and-bred writer who's been riding the journalism tiger since he was 18.

He is currently a reporter  for the Newark, N.J., Star-Ledger, where he covers a variety of topics.

He started his career with a high school reporting internship at The Etobicoke Guardian, a local bi-weekly in Canada. He was hooked after enjoying the recognition received as a regular columnist, complete with his own byline and picture gracing the front page skybox once a week.

Suleman graduated in the spring of 1999 from Ryerson Polytechnic University's School of Journalism in Toronto and from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism in 2004. His professional experience includes stints with a local TV broadcaster, an internship in Reuters's Toronto bureau, on the foreign desk at the Canadian Press, and as a copy editor at the Globe and Mail.

In 2000, he became an assistant editor for Rediff.com, a Web site aimed at South Asians (and one of the world's most-visited news sites). After helping to set up Rediff's San Mateo, CA, office, Suleman moved in the summer of 2001 to Rediff's New York City office. He reports and writes about the New York area for Rediff, and its sister newspaper, India Abroad.

For two years in a row, he won first place from the South Asian Journalists Association for outstanding story by a journalism student in North America. In 1999, he received first place from SAJA in the student category for "The Long, Hot, Nuclear Summer," a feature piece reporting on the nuclear tests while in India. In 2000, he won the prize for "Five Lines for a Dead Man," a story about a friend of his.

Though he lived for most of his life in in Toronto, Suleman travels extensively. His favorite destination to date is Timerghara, which he reached after an arduous trek to the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. There, he lived for 15 days with the locals, like the locals.

He lives with his wife, fellow journalist Shaheen Pasha and their daughter Iman, in New Jersey.

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