He received his education at Kodaikanal International School and Amherst College, where he earned degrees in French and Political Science.

In 2019, Taseer's Overseas Citizenship of India was revoked, a move he claims was retaliatory for his critical coverage of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

[1][2] According to Taseer, his father met his mother during a book promotion trip to India in 1980 and the affair lasted "little more than a week.

[4] Taseer later studied at Amherst College[5] in Massachusetts, earning dual Bachelor of Arts degrees in French and Political Science in 2001.

On 5 May 2011, a few days after the death of Osama bin Laden, Taseer wrote a piece for the Financial Times titled "Pakistan’s Rogue Army Runs a Shattered State".

[14] It was one of the first pieces of journalism to point to the significance that Osama bin Laden had been killed in a Pakistani cantonment town, Abbottabad.

On 16 July 2011, The Wall Street Journal published a piece its editors provocatively, and somewhat misleadingly, titled "Why My Father Hated India".

Tharoor rose to Aatish Taseer's defense; writing in the Deccan Chronicle, in a piece titled "Delusional liberals",[18] he quoted Taseer's original piece extensively and said in general he "admired the young man’s writing", and felt he had made "his point in language that was both sharp [...] heartfelt and accurate".

[22] Previously, he was in a relationship with Lady Gabriella Windsor, daughter of the Prince and Princess Michael of Kent,[23] whom he had met when she was an undergraduate at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, and he at Amherst College in Massachusetts.

[25] On 8 November 2019, Taseer's Overseas Citizenship of India was revoked by the Indian Ministry of Home Affairs claiming he attempted to "conceal information that his father was of Pakistani origin".

[31] Taseer's first book Stranger to History: A Son's Journey Through Islamic Lands (2009), His part memoir-part travelogue, has been translated into more than 14 languages and hailed as a "must-read" for anyone attempting to understand the Muslim world.