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.
April 03, 2005 00:00 IST
After raising a war cry against George Bush for denying him a visa, Narendra Modi has now quietly piped down. Modi’s swabhimaan yatra d...
Sun, Apr 03, 2005March 27, 2005 00:00 IST
As a schoolboy when asked to specify his religion in his matriculation form, Vasant Sathe wrote ‘‘humanity’’ and in the ...
Sun, Mar 27, 2005March 20, 2005 00:00 IST
After the Lok Sabha poll defeat followed by the Maharashtra Assembly setback, L K Advani was down in the dumps. The RSS, taking advantage of...
Sun, Mar 20, 2005March 13, 2005 00:00 IST
The Congress high command in Delhi sought an explanation from Priya Ranjan Dasmunshi, one of the gang of four who bungled up Operation Jhark...
Sun, Mar 13, 2005March 09, 2005 00:00 IST
Who does the director of the Intelligence Bureau (IB) report to? Technically, the home ministry, but a succession of IB directors have zealo...
Wed, Mar 09, 2005March 06, 2005 00:00 IST
The Congress held no post-mortem on the party’s disastrous election strategy in Bihar and Jharkhand, which was the brainchild of Arjun ...
Sun, Mar 06, 2005February 27, 2005 00:00 IST
A Delhi journalist on an Indian Airlines flight from Patna to Delhi last week was taken aback when she heard the pilot announce that the pla...
Sun, Feb 27, 2005February 20, 2005 00:00 IST
Mulayam Singh Yadav’s government in Uttar Pradesh has inducted 5,000 new recruits for the State Police and PAC in the last six months....
Sun, Feb 20, 2005February 13, 2005 00:00 IST
In any other democratic country, M K Dhar’s just-released book Open Secrets, recounting his work in the Intelligence Bureau over 29 yea...
Sun, Feb 13, 2005February 06, 2005 00:00 IST
It is Khushwant Singh’s trademark that he does not tread softly and speak deferentially about the dead. His obituaries of the people he...
Sun, Feb 06, 2005February 06, 2005 00:00 IST
The Congress high command in Delhi appears to have had advance knowledge of Goa Governor S C Jamir’s decision to dismiss the Manohar Pa...
Sun, Feb 06, 2005January 30, 2005 00:00 IST
The foreign editor of a leading financial newspaper in London met External Affairs Minister Natwar Singh this month for an interview. He was...
Sun, Jan 30, 2005January 23, 2005 00:00 IST
It was a repair bill of Rs 8.57 lakh for the plush residence of our Consul General in Frankfurt, fitted with a heated indoor swimming pool a...
Sun, Jan 23, 2005January 16, 2005 00:00 IST
The heavyweight contenders for the post of Haryana chief minister from the Congress ranks include Bhajan Lal, Bhupinder Singh Hooda and Bire...
Sun, Jan 16, 2005January 09, 2005 00:00 IST
The downside of the tsunami relief operations was politicians jostling for media attention and trying to undercut rivals. The Andamans saw a...
Sun, Jan 09, 2005January 02, 2005 00:00 IST
Some 31 Rajya Sabha MPs are still waiting for official accommodation and many are convinced that they are being shortchanged by the Lok Sabh...
Sun, Jan 02, 2005December 27, 2004 02:49 IST
The services of former Intelligence Bureau chief M K Narayanan and former secretary, External Affairs, J N Dixit, have often been utilised b...
Mon, Dec 27, 2004December 19, 2004 00:51 IST
The dynamic Tourism Minister, Renuka Chowdhury, has several new schemes to attract visitors from abroad, but many of her ideas cannot be put...
Sun, Dec 19, 2004December 12, 2004 00:00 IST
Uma Bharati vehemently denies sending a letter denigrating her party colleagues to BJP president L K Advani, although the Hindu magazine tha...
Sun, Dec 12, 2004December 05, 2004 00:00 IST
NCP leaders Sharad Pawar and Praful Patel learnt of S M Krishna’s appointment as governor of Maharashtra from television. When Pawar pr...
Sun, Dec 05, 2004November 28, 2004 00:16 IST
At a Cabinet meeting on October 30, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh chided senior ministers for not treating their juniors with due considerat...
Sun, Nov 28, 2004November 22, 2004 00:00 IST
Thirty years ago when I shifted from Bombay — it had not yet been re-christened Mumbai — to Delhi I drew much sympathy for moving ...
Mon, Nov 22, 2004November 21, 2004 00:34 IST
Some devotees of the Kanchi mutt question whether Shankaracharya Jayendra Saraswathi should have taken his holy staff to such a ‘pollut...
Sun, Nov 21, 2004November 14, 2004 00:00 IST
A month back Jayalalithaa inaugurated a new Tamil Nadu Bhawan in Delhi, although there were already two other state guest houses in the Capi...
Sun, Nov 14, 2004November 07, 2004 00:00 IST
The Prime Minister conducted the meeting of the Council of Ministers last week rather like a schoolmaster addressing a classroom of errant s...
Sun, Nov 07, 2004