Coomi Kapoor has been a journalist for the last four decades. Her forte has been political reporting. She has witnessed the shifting power equations in the capital -- from Indira Gandhi’s regime to the rise of the Aam Aadmi Party. She is presently contributing editor to The Indian Express. Earlier, she worked for the newspaper as chief reporter, special correspondent and editor, Delhi. Coomi has worked in several publications in different capacities. She was principal correspondent, India Today, editor news, Sunday Mail, bureau chief, Indian Post and political editor, Illustrated Weekly. She has been writing a political diary in a lighter vein since 1985 and her syndicated column was carried by many newspapers. She was also stringer for The Times, London, and columnist for The Star, Malaysia.
January 31, 2006 00:00 IST
It was an all-Congress show at Sunday’s swearing-in ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhavan. Shibu Soren and Prem Chand Gupta were the lone repr...
Tue, Jan 31, 2006January 29, 2006 00:00 IST
There are two sorts of UPA allies—those who are smitten by Sonia Gandhi even if there is little love lost for the Congress party and th...
Sun, Jan 29, 2006January 22, 2006 00:00 IST
Normally journalists covering the CBI have a tough time extracting any information whatsoever, but ever since the Quattrocchi bank account w...
Sun, Jan 22, 2006January 17, 2006 00:00 IST
It has been a recurring theme in the Bofors case. The CBI has somehow always managed to be just one step away from zeroing in on the accused...
Tue, Jan 17, 2006January 15, 2006 00:25 IST
Pakistan usually scores over the Indian Foreign Office in dispatching its senior-most statesmen to attend funerals of dignitaries in the Mid...
Sun, Jan 15, 2006January 09, 2006 00:00 IST
Many years ago one of Delhi’s most endearing and enduring politicians, the late Jagpravesh Chandra, presented me his book on why the Ca...
Mon, Jan 09, 2006January 08, 2006 00:00 IST
The Left saw another side to the usually soft-spoken Manmohan Singh when it made an issue over the joint Indo-US air force exercise in Kalai...
Sun, Jan 08, 2006January 02, 2006 00:00 IST
It was vintage Vajpayee at the BJP ’s 25th jubilee celebration in Mumbai. By dramatically announcing his resignation from power politic...
Mon, Jan 02, 2006December 25, 2005 00:00 IST
While walking around the Rashtrapati Bhavan compound, President A P J Abdul Kalam was intrigued to find a truckload of fruit being unloaded ...
Sun, Dec 25, 2005December 18, 2005 00:00 IST
Information that actress MP Jayaprada received a fee which was ten times that of eminent classical vocalist Pandit Jasraj at the Lucknow Mah...
Sun, Dec 18, 2005December 11, 2005 00:00 IST
There may be no Number Two slot in the BSP since Kanshi Ram’s illness but party general secretary Satish Mishra is probably behenji...
Sun, Dec 11, 2005December 06, 2005 00:45 IST
Natwar Singh does not believe that the mention of his name in the Volcker report is sufficient reason for him to go gently into the night. &...
Tue, Dec 06, 2005December 04, 2005 00:00 IST
Hours before Shivraj Singh Chouhan was elected chief minister of Madhya Pradesh by the BJP legislative party, a furious Uma Bharati drove to...
Sun, Dec 04, 2005November 27, 2005 00:00 IST
Since the February Assembly results, Laloo Yadav has been listless and snappish and not his usual bumptious self. He sensed defeat early in ...
Sun, Nov 27, 2005November 20, 2005 00:00 IST
Even after Natwar Singh’s departure, the Ministry of External Affairs still has to contend with Indian leaders speaking out of turn and...
Sun, Nov 20, 2005November 13, 2005 00:00 IST
Natwar Singh has upset party colleagues accusing them of conspiring to get his job. To some UPA allies he remarked caustically about ‘&...
Sun, Nov 13, 2005November 07, 2005 00:00 IST
Uma Bharati has a tendency to shoot off angry letters denouncing her critics and ends up regretting her impulsive actions. But Bharati’...
Mon, Nov 07, 2005October 30, 2005 00:00 IST
Reports of Deve Gowda’s old style politics of browbeating industrialists and blocking modernisation and reform in Bangalore come as a s...
Sun, Oct 30, 2005October 23, 2005 00:00 IST
A Marwari industrialist setting off on a wild cat adventure at the ripe age of 49 is rare. But Vijaypat Singhania is hardly your run-of the ...
Sun, Oct 23, 2005October 23, 2005 00:00 IST
The three main contenders for the post of CBI director are K K Paul, the Delhi Police Commissioner, R S Mooshahary, DG, BSF, and J K Sinha, ...
Sun, Oct 23, 2005October 16, 2005 00:00 IST
President A P J Abdul Kalam has a simplicity and humility which instantly endears him to all who come in contact with him. A visitor who was...
Sun, Oct 16, 2005October 09, 2005 00:00 IST
The recent change in retirement rules for the Home and Defence Secretaries as well as the RAW and IB chiefs is projected as a measure to ens...
Sun, Oct 09, 2005October 02, 2005 00:00 IST
For the MEA and the PMO, speaking at cross purposes is an old habit which is reflected in the mixed signals of our Pakistan policy. But our ...
Sun, Oct 02, 2005September 25, 2005 00:14 IST
There are probably several hundred requests for an interview with Rahul Gandhi, with many prominent editors even sending in a list of writte...
Sun, Sep 25, 2005September 18, 2005 00:00 IST
The friendship between Rahul Gandhi and Omar Abdullah has been cemented thanks to a shared love of speed riding motor bikes on dirt tracks. ...
Sun, Sep 18, 2005