[4] I find there are stories in every nook and corner that are waiting to be told, says Parveen Talha, about her career as a writer, So I will pursue my passion for writing now that I am a retired person Parveen Talha was born in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh in India, as one of the two children (her brother, Osama Talha, who later became a leading journalist, died young in 1995[5]), in the famous Awadh family.
[6] Her father, Mohammed Talha, was a freedom fighter and a known lawyer,[5] a participant in the Jang-e-Azadi independence struggle[7] who chose to remain in India when his brother moved to Pakistan during the partition.
[2] There was a large-scale leakage of opium going on in UP then, Parveen Talha said about her campaign against drug traffickers, While I tried my best to play a stringent officer dealing with certain illegal channels, poppy cultivators were surprised too because they had never seen a woman at that level[1][8] Parveen Talha started her career as a lecturer of economics at the Lucknow University in 1965 where she worked till 1969,[2] the year she passed Indian Civil Service examination.
She is credited with making NACEN an accredited training institute of the World Customs Organization's (WCO) for Asia-Pacific region.
She is also reported to have introduced training modules for stopping the smuggling of ozone depleting substances.