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.
May 16, 2004 00:00 IST
The 14th Lok Sabha will have four young men whose parents can show them the ropes since they too will be in Parliament. This exclusive club ...
Sun, May 16, 2004May 09, 2004 00:00 IST
While most opinion polls have been constantly revising downwards their estimates of the NDA’s tally, Arun Nehru has kept his figures fa...
Sun, May 09, 2004May 02, 2004 00:00 IST
The BJP shot itself in the foot by rejecting tie-ups with its former ally, Om Prakash Chautala’s Indian National Lok Dal in Haryana and...
Sun, May 02, 2004April 27, 2004 00:00 IST
I was a cub reporter, new to the capital and even newer to the world of politics, when I covered my first parliamentary poll in 1971. The ca...
Tue, Apr 27, 2004April 25, 2004 00:00 IST
Actress Jayaprada has got down from one cycle and jumped onto another. The symbol of her former party, the TDP in Andhra Pradesh, is a cycle...
Sun, Apr 25, 2004April 18, 2004 00:00 IST
Though the poll surveys predict an NDA victory, the BJP camp remains nervous. One reason for the BJP’s insecurity is astrologer Lacchma...
Sun, Apr 18, 2004April 11, 2004 00:00 IST
Recently, the DMK lodged a complaint with the Election Commission, which seemed rather trivial. The DMK’s grouse was that the AIADMK wa...
Sun, Apr 11, 2004April 04, 2004 00:00 IST
Several from the BJP’s think-tank including Arun Jaitley and Arun Shourie provided inputs for the BJP’s Vision 2004 document. The ...
Sun, Apr 04, 2004March 28, 2004 00:00 IST
When the Congress manifesto release was postponed, many jumped to the conclusion that the delay was because the party did not want the manif...
Sun, Mar 28, 2004March 21, 2004 00:00 IST
Since the art work for the logo Shining India and its Hindi equivalent Bharat Uday were designed by an advertising agency for the Finance Mi...
Sun, Mar 21, 2004March 14, 2004 00:00 IST
In sharp contrast to their backbiting party colleagues, Pranab Mukherjee, Manmohan Singh and Ahmed Patel adhere to the Gandhian philosophy o...
Sun, Mar 14, 2004March 07, 2004 00:00 IST
In the last two general elections there was a trickle of new recruits to the BJP, this time there is a flood. Credit for the string of new c...
Sun, Mar 07, 2004March 01, 2004 00:00 IST
• Najma Heptullah has taken offence to Congress spokesman Kapil Sibal’s description of her as ‘‘a migratory bird’&...
Mon, Mar 01, 2004February 29, 2004 00:00 IST
For centuries, the most popular destination for travellers to India was the Ganga. The mighty river steeped in religious and spiritual signi...
Sun, Feb 29, 2004February 22, 2004 00:00 IST
The Congress media cell has become efficient and techno-savvy rather late in life. Narendra Modi, for example, introduced SMS and e-mail to ...
Sun, Feb 22, 2004February 15, 2004 00:00 IST
The Home Ministry has advised all ministerial offices in the Capital to ensure that imposters posing as ministers do not get to enter the pr...
Sun, Feb 15, 2004February 08, 2004 00:00 IST
Last year L K Advani seemed a trifle nervous about his Gandhinagar constituency what with the murder of local MLA Haren Pandya and governmen...
Sun, Feb 08, 2004February 01, 2004 00:00 IST
Many famous names in the art world made their debut at Mumbai’s venerable Jehangir Art Gallery. Artists from the progressive school of ...
Sun, Feb 01, 2004January 25, 2004 00:00 IST
The BJP might have taken Madan Lal Khurana out of Delhi politics by making him governor of Rajasthan, but it can’t take the politician ...
Sun, Jan 25, 2004January 18, 2004 00:00 IST
Though the Congress has been out of power for almost a decade, party leaders are so full of their own consequence that journalists find it ...
Sun, Jan 18, 2004January 14, 2004 00:00 IST
The thing about spin masters is that they end up convincing not just themselves but other members of the hype tribe, leading to a bandwagon ...
Wed, Jan 14, 2004January 11, 2004 00:00 IST
Mamata Banerjee received numerous congratulations on January 5, her official birthday. She was hard put to explain that in fact it is not he...
Sun, Jan 11, 2004January 04, 2004 00:00 IST
With the Congress searching desperately for allies, the CPM’s Harkishen Singh Surjeet climbed out of the woodwork to offer his services...
Sun, Jan 04, 2004December 14, 2003 00:00 IST
Certainly, no Indian can write my biography because biography isn’t an Indian skill,” Ghanshyam Das Birla once remarked. Medha Kud...
Sun, Dec 14, 2003December 07, 2003 00:00 IST
Vasundhara Raje Scindia blames the generally negative assessment of her chances in the assembly polls on the media and says that towards th...
Sun, Dec 07, 2003