Coomi Kapoor is a veteran journalist and currently serves as the Contributing Editor for The Indian Express. With a distinguished career spanning over four decades, she is regarded as one of India's most seasoned political reporters, offering a ringside view of the capital’s shifting power dynamics.
Experience & Career Trajectory Kapoor has held pivotal roles across India's leading media houses. Her long-standing association with The Indian Express has seen her serve in various critical capacities, including Chief Reporter, Special Correspondent, and Editor (Delhi). Beyond the Express Group, her extensive editorial experience includes:
Principal Correspondent, India Today
Political Editor, Illustrated Weekly
Editor (News), Sunday Mail
Bureau Chief, Indian Post
Expertise & Insight Her forte lies in deep-dive political reporting and analysis. Kapoor’s career has tracked the evolution of Indian democracy, witnessing the transition of power from the regime of Indira Gandhi to the contemporary rise of the Aam Aadmi Party.
She is widely celebrated for her ability to blend hard-hitting political news with engaging commentary. Since 1985, she has penned a popular political diary, known for its wit and "lighter vein" approach to serious political developments. Her syndicated columns have been carried by numerous newspapers across the country.
Global Authority Kapoor’s journalistic credibility extends beyond India. She has served as a stringer for The Times, London, and as a columnist for The Star, Malaysia, establishing her as a respected voice in the international media landscape.
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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
August 25, 2002 00:00 IST
Ram Jethmalani was evasive when the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs quizzed him as to who was the appointing authority for ...
Sun, Aug 25, 2002
August 18, 2002 00:00 IST
At a Cabinet meeting a fortnight ago, the issue of framing the resolution for selection of the Chief Vigilance Commissioner cropped up. Fin...
Sun, Aug 18, 2002
August 11, 2002 00:00 IST
Vajpayee and Advani decided to appoint Najma Heptullah as chairperson of the Indian Council of Cultural Relations to compensate her for losi...
Sun, Aug 11, 2002
August 04, 2002 00:00 IST
The 1998 declaration of assets by the central ministers in fulfillment of the NDA’s poll pledge raises more questions than it answers. ...
Sun, Aug 04, 2002
July 28, 2002 00:00 IST
Sonia Gandhi is fast shedding both her goongi gudiya image and her Italian accent. Her Sphinx-like silences are not just the outcome of shyn...
Sun, Jul 28, 2002
July 21, 2002 00:00 IST
North Block officials thought that the new Finance Minister Jaswant Singh was being unnecessarily pernickety when, on arrival at his new off...
Sun, Jul 21, 2002
July 19, 2002 00:00 IST
There is a class of Indian society perennially obsessed with the question, ‘what will foreigners think of us.’ Their complaint is ...
Fri, Jul 19, 2002
July 14, 2002 00:00 IST
Traditionally, South Block, the seat of the MEA, is formal, fancy and forbidding, while North Block, housing the home and finance ministrie...
Sun, Jul 14, 2002
July 07, 2002 00:00 IST
Pramod Mahajan’s hand in the recent version of the Kamaraj plan to eliminate his rivals in the Cabinet was evident. But thanks to L K A...
Sun, Jul 07, 2002
June 30, 2002 00:00 IST
A fortnight ago, the Cabinet cleared the proposal to amend the SPG Act in the coming Parliament session so that former prime ministers who a...
Sun, Jun 30, 2002
June 23, 2002 00:00 IST
There is an outpouring of indignation among BJP sympathisers over Time magazine’s rather scurrilous piece on the PM’s health. In t...
Sun, Jun 23, 2002
June 16, 2002 00:00 IST
The Home Ministry believes that telephonic intercepts between Ayub Thuker, the London-based conduit of funds to Syed Ali Shah Geelani in Kas...
Sun, Jun 16, 2002
June 09, 2002 00:00 IST
P V Narasimha Rao has written to the government expressing concern about the move to amend the SPG Act so that former prime ministers get SP...
Sun, Jun 09, 2002
June 04, 2002 00:00 IST
With war threatening, surely now you should stop focusing on Gujarat, especially when things are settling down,’’ a BJP supporter ...
Tue, Jun 04, 2002
June 02, 2002 00:00 IST
A high powered committee of secretaries met at Delhi’s Red Fort earlier this week on a matter of top security. The all-important agenda...
Sun, Jun 02, 2002
May 26, 2002 00:00 IST
A guru from Jalandhar has become the favourite godman of the Capital’s power elite. The Who’s Who of Delhi paid homage to him at a...
Sun, May 26, 2002
May 19, 2002 00:00 IST
Andhra Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu is accustomed to red carpet treatment and being cosseted in New Delhi. But on his visit to ...
Sun, May 19, 2002
May 12, 2002 00:00 IST
Ooty, in Tamil Nadu, is such a popular summer resort that some years ago, the state government built a palatial VIP guest house called Tamil...
Sun, May 12, 2002



