![]() Inside Track, her political column in Sunday Express that has been running since 1985, is a must-read for the who’s of who of New Delhi and as well as a delight for the common reader. She was the founding editor of Sunday Mail, and has also worked in India Today, the Times, London and has written columns for the Star, Malaysia.Ĭoomi has made her presence strongly felt in New Delhi thanks to her balanced and centrist way of understanding Indian politics. Her self-effacing manner hides her fearless determination and bold approach in reporting events, issues and people.Ĭoomi, in a career spanning more than four decades, has worked in the Illustrated Weekly as Political Editor and in Indian Post newspaper. In 1971, when Coomi, daughter of a Parsi civil servant from the erstwhile Mumbai state and armed with a Master’s degree in journalism from Boston University, joined Motherland as a reporter, she was a quiet person, but someone with clarity and determination, qualities that would take her a long way in the profession.Īs chief reporter with the Indian Express between 19, she showed how to report civic issues and serious urban subjects. ![]() New Delhi, a city where the centrist position has shrunk the most, is not an easy place to survive, leave alone survive with a formidable reputation intact.Ĭoomi Kapoor, 69, belongs to one of the initial batches of women journalists who chartered a new course for generations of women to follow. ![]() ![]() ![]() An archival image of former prime minister Indira Gandhi. ![]()
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