Coomi Kapoor


Coomi Kapoor is currently the Contributing Editor of the Indian Express. Prior to working with the Express, Kapoor has worked in various publications including India Today, Sunday Mail, and Illustrated Weekly. Kapoor was with the Indian Express at the time Indira Gandhi had imposed emergency in India in 1975. In 2009, Outlook magazine described Coomi and her husband and fellow journalist Virender Kapoor as a "gossip cartel" since "they know everyone" and there is allegedly nothing that goes on in the corridors of power that they don't know about. Kapoor has written a new book on the Emergency called The Emergency: A personal history. As of 2015, Coomi Kapoor is on the Executive Committee of the Editor's Guild of India.
Kapoor's brother-in-law is BJP leader Subramanian Swamy.