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.
November 30, 2003 00:00 IST
Civil Aviation Minister Rajiv Pratap Rudy would no doubt like to inform the folks back in Bihar that he is going places in New Delhi. Perhap...
Sun, Nov 30, 2003November 28, 2003 00:00 IST
If elections are won on favours and pavement-thumping activism, then the BJP’s candidate for chief minister of Delhi, Madan Lal Khurana...
Fri, Nov 28, 2003November 23, 2003 00:00 IST
Andhra Pradesh Congress chief D Srinivas who stayed at Andhra Bhavan in Delhi earlier this month was infuriated when he was presented with a...
Sun, Nov 23, 2003November 19, 2003 00:00 IST
Some thirteen hundred years ago, ships carrying Zoroastrians fleeing persecution in Persia arrived on the Gujarat coast seeking refuge. Acco...
Wed, Nov 19, 2003November 16, 2003 00:00 IST
Many fear that the Supreme Court intervention in the arrest of five journalists for breaching the Tamil Nadu Assembly’s privilege will ...
Sun, Nov 16, 2003November 09, 2003 00:00 IST
Minister of State for Finance A V Adsul wanted his loyal political worker Anwar Ibrahim Qasi to be appointed as his assistant personal secre...
Sun, Nov 09, 2003November 02, 2003 00:00 IST
Shahnawaz Hussain went into deep depression when he was first transferred from the high profile Civil Aviation Ministry to the less visible ...
Sun, Nov 02, 2003October 26, 2003 00:00 IST
President Abdul Kalam had to be content touring Bulgaria, Sudan and the UAE on his first state visit abroad. Many of the exciting destinatio...
Sun, Oct 26, 2003October 19, 2003 00:00 IST
The Indian government has not taken kindly to the news that some Pakistanis have illegally occupied 63 Clifton in Karachi, the Indian consul...
Sun, Oct 19, 2003October 12, 2003 00:00 IST
It's not just the Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister who are bitten by the travel bug. President Abdul J. Kalam is also constantly on ...
Sun, Oct 12, 2003October 05, 2003 00:00 IST
The Congress party General Secretary Ambika Soni came to participate in the BBC talk show, Question Time, India, and discovered to her annoy...
Sun, Oct 05, 2003September 28, 2003 00:00 IST
Mayawati blames Vajpayee rather than Advani for her troubles partly because she suspects that her one-time rakhi brother Lalji Tandon, who i...
Sun, Sep 28, 2003September 21, 2003 00:00 IST
Normally a change of guard in the state government is followed by the removal of the assembly speaker. But Mulayam Singh Yadav is happy to a...
Sun, Sep 21, 2003September 14, 2003 00:00 IST
Congressmen were irked that Mulayam Singh Yadav was taking their support for granted. Rather than talking to Soniaji directly, he used his l...
Sun, Sep 14, 2003September 07, 2003 00:00 IST
Even after the courts settle whether or not Sachin Tendulkar has to pay Customs duty on his Ferrari, he may have to wait a while before he g...
Sun, Sep 07, 2003August 31, 2003 00:00 IST
Mayawati’s moves have put paid to L K Advani and Venkaiah Naidu’s plan to call an early General Election. The BJP think tank first...
Sun, Aug 31, 2003August 29, 2003 00:00 IST
It was while waiting at the Moscow airport some years back that realisation dawned. India, like Russia, has experienced its own economic rev...
Fri, Aug 29, 2003August 24, 2003 00:00 IST
Considering that it is the wettest monsoon in Delhi in decades and it had been raining steadily till noon on August 15, Rashtrapati Bhavan o...
Sun, Aug 24, 2003August 17, 2003 00:00 IST
Mayawati’s hard core supporters may stick with her through thick and thin, but the high profile recruits to the BSP found it difficult...
Sun, Aug 17, 2003August 10, 2003 00:00 IST
The younger generation of two important political families met for the first time at a special film showing of the movie Chalte Chalte in De...
Sun, Aug 10, 2003August 03, 2003 00:00 IST
Ever since he snubbed Venkaiah Naidu promising that he was neither tired nor retired, Prime Minister Vajpayee seems to be re-invigorated. Th...
Sun, Aug 03, 2003July 27, 2003 00:00 IST
Ever since the death of Dayanand Sahay, an MP from Bihar, rumour has gained ground that the bungalow in which he lived on Pandit Pant Marg i...
Sun, Jul 27, 2003July 20, 2003 00:00 IST
During the recent meeting of the Samata national executive, some representatives from Jharkhand praised Laloo Prasad Yadav, who is supposed ...
Sun, Jul 20, 2003July 20, 2003 00:00 IST
There are common strands in the stories of the major political dynasties of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. High drama, searing t...
Sun, Jul 20, 2003July 13, 2003 00:00 IST
The constitution states that the 12 Rajya Sabha seats nominated by the President are meant for ‘‘persons with special knowledge or...
Sun, Jul 13, 2003