Tinat Atifa Masood, a writer by choice, an actor for fun and a lover and dreamer by default, is also an accredited journalist, a socio-political activist, producer-director, poet, blogger, a singing enthusiast, with 25 years of compering behind her. Awarded as the Youth ICON of India 2013, she is now proud to be the President Elect for 2016-17 of Rotary Club of Guwahati.

Tinat just loves to write, yet acting has and always will be her first love. “When on stage, I feel like a King”, she says. She has been on stage since 4 years of age and has had major stints on the silver-screen and celluloid. An alumnus of Loreto Convent, Shillong, Tinat is grateful to her Irish teachers for what she is today!

Tinat has a poetry book to her name titled 10:20; a compilation of random thoughts and her first published work since she started writing at the age of 17. She gifted Tirus, her son, “Adventures of Tirus”, a childrens’ story book with three stories, on his second birthday. She has compied the picture biography of the Hon’ble Chief Minister of Assam and is working to publish another book for the youth and one for the children.

Tinat is a documentary film-maker since 2002 and her documentary on tea, titled “The Brew of the Eastern Clouds” had been invited to the MIFF, 2008 and to the Stuttgart Film Festival, Bollywood and Beyond in Germany in 2008.