Asian Power Couples
Sunny & Shay Grewal
Mandeep Grewal (aka Sunny) & Gursharonjit Grewal (aka Shay) shot to fame in ‘The Family’, a
British fly-on-the-wall documentary series that began airing on 17 September 2008 on Channel
4. Each season followed a chosen family, consisting of parents and their children. Series 2
followed the lives of the Grewals, a British Indian family consisting of parents Arvinderjeet
and Sarbjit, and their three children - Mandeep, Gurdip, and Tejind along with Mandeep and
Gurdip’s spouses - Gursharonjit and Jitender, respectively, who live in west London. Since the
series aired, Sunny and Shay have gone on to present a radio show on BBC London 94.9 and in
2011 began presenting the BBC Asian Network’s Weekend Breakfast show.
Sunny & Shay Grewal
Tanika Gupta & David Archer
Tanika Gupta MBE is an English playwright of Bengali descent. Apart from her work for the
theatre, she has also written scripts for television and radio plays. Tanika graduated from
Oxford University with a Modern History degree. In 1988, after marriage to literary author
David Archer, she and her husband moved to London and Gupta was a community worker in
Islington, writing in her spare time. Tanika was awarded an MBE in 2008 for services to drama.
David Archer is ActionAid’s Head of Programme Development. He has 25 years experience
working on rights-based approaches to education, building civil society coalitions on education
across Africa, Asia and Latin America. David is a co-founder and Board Member of the Global
Campaign for Education, manages the Right to Education Project and sits on the Board of the
Global Partnership for Education.
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