[5] Taneja initially worked as a reporter for a non-governmental organization, covering human rights issues, and particularly focusing on the American invasion of Iraq in 2003.
[5] In December 2021, along with So Mayer she was appointed to chair English PEN's translation advisory group.
The book was a re-imagining of Shakespeare's play King Lear, and was set in contemporary India.
[15] Taneja's second book, Aftermath, deals with the circumstances of the 2019 London Bridge terror attack.
[16] The perpetrator of the attack, Usman Khan, had attended a creative writing course that Taneja had taught at HMP Whitemoor as part of a prison education programme called Learning Together, and the attack was conducted while Khan attended a Learning Together conference on licence.
[17] Although Taneja had been invited to attend the conference, she did not go, but personally knew one of the victims of the attack as her colleague in the education programme.