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.
September 11, 2005 00:00 IST
During the arguments on the plea of the Shankacharya of Kanchi before the Supreme Court last week that the criminal cases against him should...
Sun, Sep 11, 2005September 05, 2005 00:00 IST
When the Chief Justice of India, R.C. Lahoti, remonstrated with Parliament last month for its ‘‘unwarranted criticism’’ ...
Mon, Sep 05, 2005September 04, 2005 00:00 IST
Ness Wadia, scion of the Bombay Dyeing group, and the spunky Bollywood beauty, Preity Zinta, visited the Vaishnodevi shrine last month along...
Sun, Sep 04, 2005August 28, 2005 00:00 IST
The late Murasoli Maran was a diehard anti-Congress leader, but his son, Dayanidhi Maran, has played a leading role in bringing together the...
Sun, Aug 28, 2005August 21, 2005 00:00 IST
The media implied that the BJP initially gave a lukewarm response to the Nanavati Commission report because it apprehended that the same com...
Sun, Aug 21, 2005August 14, 2005 00:51 IST
The Nanavati Commission concludes, as did other such commissions before it, that the attacks on Delhi Sikhs in 1984 ‘‘were made in...
Sun, Aug 14, 2005August 07, 2005 00:43 IST
There is keen competition among Congress MPs to get close to the party’s heir apparent, Rahul Gandhi. Youngsters and first-timer MPs li...
Sun, Aug 07, 2005August 03, 2005 02:00 IST
With Mahmoud Ahmedinejad’s swearing in tomorrow as President, hardliners will control all three power centres in Iran’s theocracy....
Wed, Aug 03, 2005July 31, 2005 00:00 IST
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s dismissive remarks on the Indo-Iran gas pipeline project are not entirely because of American pressure....
Sun, Jul 31, 2005July 17, 2005 00:00 IST
Verghese Kurien, founder chairman of Amul and the National Dairy Development Board, has a bone to pick, not just with his successor Amrita P...
Sun, Jul 17, 2005July 10, 2005 00:24 IST
Apart from losing his post as a BJP secretary and political secretary to party president L K Advani, there is another significant indicator ...
Sun, Jul 10, 2005July 03, 2005 00:00 IST
In the good old days when discipline was tighter and the RSS sarsanghchalak set the tone by rarely speaking in public, the RSS had no troub...
Sun, Jul 03, 2005June 26, 2005 00:00 IST
While the Left had consistently opposed the petrol price hike, Finance Minister P Chidambaram and Petroleum Minister Mani Shankar pleaded ...
Sun, Jun 26, 2005June 19, 2005 00:00 IST
Congress ministers dread receiving a telephone call from Ahmed Patel as they are conscious that the Congress president’s political secr...
Sun, Jun 19, 2005June 14, 2005 00:00 IST
The man who popularised the phrase ‘‘pseudo secularist’’ may have fallen into the very trap he cautioned others to bewar...
Tue, Jun 14, 2005June 12, 2005 00:27 IST
The ongoing soap opera featuring the country’s super elite continues to keep the Indian public enthralled. Ajitabh Bachchan, nicknamed ...
Sun, Jun 12, 2005May 29, 2005 00:42 IST
The Central Government was working against time to dissolve the Bihar Assembly on the night of May 23 since Nitish Kumar planned to stake a ...
Sun, May 29, 2005May 22, 2005 00:20 IST
Sonia Gandhi’s rare press meets are arranged so that instead of addressing all journalists together, media representatives are placed a...
Sun, May 22, 2005May 15, 2005 00:00 IST
Law Minister H R Bhardwaj categorically denied he had received controversial IAS officer L V Saptharishi’s letter complaining against t...
Sun, May 15, 2005May 11, 2005 00:00 IST
When Lord Ram was manoeuvred into vanvaas, his brother Bharat placed his sandals on the throne to remind his subjects that he was a mere pro...
Wed, May 11, 2005May 08, 2005 00:33 IST
Why were huge hoardings put up all over Delhi and an elaborate function organised to felicitate Arjun Singh on his 75th birthday last month,...
Sun, May 08, 2005May 01, 2005 00:32 IST
In an age where the Parliament House parking lot is filled with flashy limos, from customised Jaguars and Mercedes to top of the line Lexuse...
Sun, May 01, 2005April 24, 2005 00:00 IST
Subramaniam Swamy has mended fences with the RSS after 25 years. Swamy and the Sangh Parivar parted ways after the formation of the BJP when...
Sun, Apr 24, 2005April 17, 2005 00:08 IST
RSS chief K S Sudarshan’s outburst on Shekhar Gupta’s Walk the Talk programme was perhaps sparked off by his annoyance at the cava...
Sun, Apr 17, 2005April 10, 2005 00:00 IST
External Affairs Minister Natwar Singh is peeved that he does not have a free run of the foreign office, which he believes should be his exc...
Sun, Apr 10, 2005