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.

February 03, 2003 00:00 IST
The founders of our Republic were firm that in an egalitarian, democratic country there was no place for titles. But this idealistic concept...
Mon, Feb 03, 2003
February 02, 2003 00:00 IST
In Tuesday’s Cabinet changes, the shuffle of departments was as significant as those of the ministers. The gainer in the behind-the-sce...
Sun, Feb 02, 2003
January 26, 2003 00:00 IST
Kashrmiri journalist Iftikhar Gilani, imprisoned for six months for alleged violation of the Official Secrets Act, was released because of G...
Sun, Jan 26, 2003
January 19, 2003 00:00 IST
As part of the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas jamboree in New Delhi, the National Museum organised an exhibition on Indian artistic tradition throu...
Sun, Jan 19, 2003
January 12, 2003 00:00 IST
MTNL staffers grumble that their minister, Pramod Mahajan, seems more on the side of the competition than theirs. A private phone network ev...
Sun, Jan 12, 2003
January 10, 2003 00:00 IST
The relationship between the Indian and his overseas cousin is complex and confused. On the one hand, kinship bonds are pronounced in a soc...
Fri, Jan 10, 2003
January 05, 2003 00:00 IST
If L K Advani fears that Narendra Modi is trying to usurp his position as the darling of the Hindutva hardcore, Modi should be equally conce...
Sun, Jan 05, 2003
December 15, 2002 00:00 IST
Women MPs in Parliament, including those like the Begum of Rampur, Noor Banoo, who sport priceless heirlooms, are totally out dazzled by the...
Sun, Dec 15, 2002
December 08, 2002 00:00 IST
Just days before the Dutch Embassy’s much acclaimed exhibition of old Dutch masters was to be shifted from Delhi to Bangalore, an offic...
Sun, Dec 08, 2002
December 01, 2002 00:00 IST
Amitabh Bachchan walked out of director Madhur Bhandarkar’s film, Police Force, reportedly because Bhandarkar demurred over accepting a...
Sun, Dec 01, 2002
November 24, 2002 00:00 IST
NRI arms dealer Suresh Nanda left India even before his case challenging the rejection of his nomination paper for Rajya Sabha was disposed ...
Sun, Nov 24, 2002
November 17, 2002 00:00 IST
How did Suresh Nanda, the dapper London-based NRI arms dealer, get embroiled in the rough and tumble of UP politics? Nanda, who was beaten u...
Sun, Nov 17, 2002
November 10, 2002 00:00 IST
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi could give Nazi leader Joseph Goebbels a run for his money. In his election trail speeches, Modi totall...
Sun, Nov 10, 2002
November 03, 2002 00:00 IST
Dissidence in the UP BJP unit has developed into a fullblooded rebellion partly because Prime Minister Vajpayee didn’t get to meet rebe...
Sun, Nov 03, 2002
October 27, 2002 00:00 IST
Chairperson of the National Commission for Women Poornima Advani (no relation to L K Advani) has a PhD in law and a string of physiotherapy ...
Sun, Oct 27, 2002
October 20, 2002 00:00 IST
Organisers of the half-a-century old Ram Lila function at the Parade Ground in Old Delhi always manage to persuade the cream of Delhi’s...
Sun, Oct 20, 2002
October 18, 2002 00:00 IST
A newspaper article interviewing celebrities on what they considered the single most defining characteristic of being an Indian aroused my c...
Fri, Oct 18, 2002
October 13, 2002 01:40 IST
The presence of three BJP stalwarts—L K Advani, Sushma Swaraj and Bhairon Singh Shekhawat—on the dais at the inauguration of Outlo...
Sun, Oct 13, 2002
October 06, 2002 00:00 IST
Murli Manohar Joshi is keen to establish through the media that he is the number three in the BJP. To buttress his claim, Joshi insists on s...
Sun, Oct 06, 2002
September 29, 2002 00:00 IST
There is a hint of friction in the Abdullah family. Chief Minister Farooq campaigned only sporadically for his son Omar for the J&K Assembly...
Sun, Sep 29, 2002
September 22, 2002 00:00 IST
After being appointed BJP president, Venkaiah Naidu placed a giant hoarding of himself outside the party headquarters which almost dwarfs th...
Sun, Sep 22, 2002
September 16, 2002 00:00 IST
Some time ago, I attended a seminar at the Press Club in the capital which was billed as a discussion on the state and investigative journal...
Mon, Sep 16, 2002
September 15, 2002 00:00 IST
On the eve of Shahnawaz Hussain’s first anniversary as civil aviation minister, Air India threw a dinner at a five star hotel in New De...
Sun, Sep 15, 2002
September 08, 2002 00:00 IST
The new Chief Vigilance Commissioner, P Shankar, is not the Tamil Nadu chief minister’s candidate. In fact, Jayalalithaa refused to eve...
Sun, Sep 08, 2002
September 01, 2002 00:00 IST
Fed up with the Central Public Works Department’s sloppy upkeep of North Block, Finance Minister Jaswant Singh wants the housekeeping a...
Sun, Sep 01, 2002



