Coomi Kapoor

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.

Inside Track: Ensuring a view of Mr Modi

Sun, Nov 11, 2018

Maneka Gandhi’s frontal and public Twitter attack on Maharashtra Forest Minister Sudhir Mungantiwar, over the killing of man-eater tigress Avni in Yavatmal, has angered some high-ups in the BJP.

Inside Track: CBI’s RAW deal

Sun, Nov 04, 2018

The R&AW angle proved to be the last straw. Earlier the government, though extremely unhappy with Verma, planned to let him complete his two-year tenure, as stipulated by the apex court.

Inside Track: Who’s with whom in this battle?

Sun, Oct 28, 2018

If the CBI is on the boil, the Enforcement Directorate (ED), where Director Karnal Singh’s term has just ended, is simmering.

Stars on the campaign ground

Sat, Oct 27, 2018

A humorous, informed account of Bollywood celebrities who hit the electoral canvas, for better or worse

Replacement Hunt

Sun, Oct 21, 2018

The government is searching for a reliable replacement for CBI chief Alok Verma, who retires in January next year.

Inside Track: Rajput raj

Sun, Oct 14, 2018

The propaganda that the BJP is no longer concerned about Brahmin interests has been reinforced by the lack of representation of the community in key slots in the party and government.

Inside Track: Brawn, not brain

Sun, Oct 07, 2018

The blunt announcement had undiplomatic phrases and even an inaccuracy. (It claimed that Imran Khan had been in office for a ‘few months’, when it had only been a month since he took over.)

Inside track: The Nehru Memorial Museum fight

Sun, Sep 30, 2018

NMML Director Shakti Sinha wants to convert the Teen Murti complex into a museum for all former prime ministers, not simply Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru.

Inside Track: Sangh song

Sun, Sep 23, 2018

Yet another explanation is that Bhagwat is simply keen to establish that the RSS has evolved and should not be penalised by future non-BJP governments. It should also be in a position to attract a younger generation with a more liberal mindset.

Inside Track: Party before govt?

Sun, Sep 16, 2018

There are enough straws in the wind to indicate that former BJP president and Union minister Nitin Gadkari is feeling the chill even though, officially, both pro and anti camps deny rumours.

Inside Track: Vanishing line

Sun, Sep 09, 2018

The BJP high command and the PMO have been pressing the chief ministers of BJP- ruled states to furnish statistics of the beneficiaries of different Central and state government schemes at the state, district, block and village level.

Inside track: The ‘outsider’

Sun, Sep 02, 2018

Manipur's Governor Najma Heptulla, who is unlikely to clear the Bill in a hurry, rushed to Delhi last week to apprise Prime Minister Narendra Modi of the situation. The state government has reportedly buckled under pressure from the dominant Meitei community.

Inside Track: Myth & reality

Sun, Aug 26, 2018

N M Ghatate, a lawyer and close friend of Atal Bihari Vajpayee since 1957 who visited him regularly, is positive that Vajpayee never described Indira Gandhi as ‘Durga’ after the Bangladesh War.

Between the lines: Fearless Kuldip Nayar, journalism’s conscience

Fri, Aug 24, 2018

Kuldip Nayar was much more than just a newsperson. He was an author of many bestsellers, champion for civil liberties and freedom of speech, an untiring activist for peace between India and Pakistan and conscience keeper of the nation.

Inside track: ‘Spy’ Chandraswami

Sun, Aug 19, 2018

India, says the book, was the playground of games between the CIA and KGB for decades.

Death of a statesman: Vajpayee, a leader who always soft-spoke his mind

Fri, Aug 17, 2018

Atal Bihari Vajpayee dead: People close to Atalji, as he was called by those who knew him well, say the defining characteristics of the man was his humanism, humour, his love for poetry, food and music. And, above all, his pragmatism.

Inside Track: A southern problem

Sun, Aug 12, 2018

EPS wanted to take a tough stand against the DMK to demonstrate to his followers that he is not being pushed around by OPS, who is now soft on rebel AIADMK leader T T V Dhinakaran

Mrs Indira Gandhi’s eyes and ears, RK Dhawan knew too much but kept silent

Tue, Aug 07, 2018

Had the man, who was Indira Gandhi’s Man Friday for over a decade, really opened up about his pivotal role in government and politics of the Seventies and Eighties, it would have been an explosive tell-all.

Inside Track: Homage to heir

Sun, Aug 05, 2018

The birthday, incidentally, was celebrated at P C Chandra Garden, a venue so large it is normally used for hosting marriage receptions and major events.

Esprit de Women’s Press Corps

Wed, Aug 01, 2018

Curiously, those who protest self-righteously against being associated with gender-based journalist organisations have no qualms about being active members and even office-bearers of various other media bodies, in which membership is also restricted.