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.

July 06, 2003 00:00 IST
Foot-in-mouth disease caught up with BJP President Venkaiah Naidu even in San Francisco where he was attending a Telegu NRI get-together. He...
Sun, Jul 06, 2003
June 29, 2003 00:00 IST
The fact that the National Projects Construction Corporation (NPCC) could work undisturbed for months creating a corridor along the riverbe...
Sun, Jun 29, 2003
June 22, 2003 00:00 IST
Indian Olympic Association President Suresh Kalmadi is desperately wooing Sports Minister Vikram Verma and his MoS Vijay Goel in the hope th...
Sun, Jun 22, 2003
June 18, 2003 00:00 IST
Deputy Prime Minister L.K. Advani laments bitterly the depths to which journalism has supposedly sunk since his days as a scribe. He and oth...
Wed, Jun 18, 2003
June 15, 2003 00:00 IST
The appointment of S Narayan to the PMO was made in the absence of the powerful additional secretary in the PMO, Ashok Saikia, who had repor...
Sun, Jun 15, 2003
June 08, 2003 00:00 IST
Ashok Ghelot's new found glory can be attributed largely to the clout of his mentor Ambica Soni, whom the Chief Minister has carefully culti...
Sun, Jun 08, 2003
June 01, 2003 00:00 IST
Nobody wants to claim this carpet from the customs warehouse and the demurrage is mounting. The UP Export Corporation which placed the order...
Sun, Jun 01, 2003
May 25, 2003 00:00 IST
Why was a section of the BJP so anxious to re-induct Kalyan Singh into the party, despite his downright irreverent remarks against his forme...
Sun, May 25, 2003
May 18, 2003 00:00 IST
Perhaps the biggest roadblock to Prime Minister A.B. Vajpayee’s new initiative for Kashmir is not the BJP or the RSS, but the hidebound...
Sun, May 18, 2003
May 14, 2003 00:00 IST
It has been a predictable and recurring drama in Parliament these past seven years. Each time the Women’s Reservation Bill is taken up ...
Wed, May 14, 2003
May 11, 2003 00:00 IST
Shabana Azmi, a staunch supporter of the Women’s Reservation Bill, accused Laloo Prasad Yadav of being anti-women for preventing the Bi...
Sun, May 11, 2003
May 04, 2003 00:00 IST
The Shiv Sena acted as if it was the host at the function to unveil Shivaji’s statue in the Parliament House compound, since Lok Sabha...
Sun, May 04, 2003
April 27, 2003 00:00 IST
Foreign Secretary Kanwal Sibal zealously protects his turf and does not take kindly to anyone, apart from his minister and the PM’s pri...
Sun, Apr 27, 2003
April 20, 2003 00:00 IST
As deputy director in the Enforcement Directorate, Ashok Aggarwal used his position to blackmail and browbeat many politicians and businessm...
Sun, Apr 20, 2003
April 13, 2003 00:00 IST
Nimubs, the firm which owns the marketing rights for the World Cup in India, offered Prasar Bharati CEO K.S. Sarma and five DD officials an ...
Sun, Apr 13, 2003
April 06, 2003 00:00 IST
Labour Minister Sahib Singh Verma vented his fury on Jet Air because he was late for an appointment in Delhi, but apart from Jet others had ...
Sun, Apr 06, 2003
April 03, 2003 00:00 IST
Two things strike you forcefully as you drive along the highway in Kerala: the size of the houses and the largeness of the billboards advert...
Thu, Apr 03, 2003
March 30, 2003 00:00 IST
Just how many Janata parties are there? Far too many to keep count of. There is the Janata Dal (United) of Sharad Yadav, the Rashtriya Janat...
Sun, Mar 30, 2003
March 23, 2003 00:00 IST
In his home state of Gujarat, Mahatma Gandhi may now be passe since the ruling BJP is keen to project its new hero Sardar Patel, but far sou...
Sun, Mar 23, 2003
March 16, 2003 00:00 IST
Parliamentarians, like everyone else in the country, are gripped by World Cup fever. During the cricket matches, MPs in Parliament’s Ce...
Sun, Mar 16, 2003
March 09, 2003 00:00 IST
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, who was extremely amiable towards the media during the poll campaign, has begun to show his true colou...
Sun, Mar 09, 2003
March 02, 2003 00:00 IST
CPI(M) leader Somnath Chatterjee feels slighted. He had been masterminding the floor coordination of the anti-government forces during the l...
Sun, Mar 02, 2003
February 23, 2003 00:00 IST
The guest list for the premiere of Samajwadi Party MP Raj Babbar’s film Kash Aap Hamare Hote starring his daughter Juhi raised eyebrow...
Sun, Feb 23, 2003
February 16, 2003 00:00 IST
Passengers traveling on Indian Airline flights last week had pictures of a beaming Civil Aviations Minister Shahnawaz Hussain staring at the...
Sun, Feb 16, 2003
February 09, 2003 00:00 IST
Unlike his predecessor Yashwant Sinha, who frequently quizzed finance ministry officials as to why they were following one particular approa...
Sun, Feb 09, 2003


