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==Personal life==
Singh comes from the family of doctors from [[Rajasthan]].<ref>{{cite news| url=http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2006-08-30/news/27430915_1_royals-fashion-ritu-kumar | work=The Times of India | title=Royals are always in fashion | date=30 August 2006}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.india-seminar.com/2010/609/609_interview_ii.htm|title = 609 Manish Arora, the magician and the monk}}</ref> His father, being a cardiologist, expected him to take up medicine. However, Pratap was inclined towards his cousin profession who was an costume assistant on a BBC production set in India.<ref name=WSJ28>{{cite news|title=The Designers|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB105787792579340700?mod=googlewsj|accessdate=13 January 2013|newspaper=The Wall Street Journal|date=11 June 2003}}</ref> The designer is often termed to be a recluse<ref name=TH12>{{cite news|last=Behal|first=Suchitra|title=Long overdue|url=http://www.hindu.com/mag/2007/03/25/stories/2007032500180500.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140531104830/http://www.hindu.com/mag/2007/03/25/stories/2007032500180500.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=31 May 2014|accessdate=12 January 2013|date=25 March 2007|newspaper=[[The Hindu]]|___location=Chennai, India}}</ref> and a media-shy person as he believes that people should associate themselves with his work instead of his name. His wife ''Payal'' works alongside him.<ref name=TOI16>{{cite news|last=DUTTA|first=AYANDRALI|title=Glamorous fashion do in Delhi|url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2009-05-14/delhi/28209069_1_glamorous-fashion-rahul-khanna-designers|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130216064041/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2009-05-14/delhi/28209069_1_glamorous-fashion-rahul-khanna-designers|url-status=dead|archive-date=16 February 2013|accessdate=12 January 2013|newspaper=[[The Times of India]]|date=14 May 2009}}</ref>
 
Pratap is a rock climber and a regular biker and remarked in an interview that he is attracted to the machine as it is an engineered product with a certain precision that gives him a sense of the carefree. The designer also feels that travelling helps in evolving creativity.<ref name=DNA25>{{cite news|title=I would trade anything for a good set of wheels|url=http://www.dnaindia.com/lifestyle/report_i-would-trade-anything-for-a-good-set-of-wheels_1463689|accessdate=12 January 2013|newspaper=Daily News & Analysis|date=8 November 2010}}</ref>