Seema Chishti
Seema Chishti | |
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 Chishti at "Privacy Supreme" 2019 | |
| Citizenship | Indian |
| Alma mater | Jawaharlal Nehru University (MA) St. Stephen's College (BA) |
| Occupation(s) | Journalist, Editor, Author |
| Years active | 1990–present |
| Employer | The Wire |
| Spouse | Sitaram Yechury (d. 2024) |
| Website | www |
Seema Chishti is a journalist and writer from Delhi, India. She is currently one of the editors of the digital news portal The Wire. She was editor for the Hindi and Delhi Bureau head for the BBC and a deputy editor at the Indian daily The New Indian Express. She has also published the book Sumitra and Anees: Tales and Recipes From a Khichdi Family and co-authored Note By Note: The India Story (1947–2017).[1][2][3]
Early life and education
[edit]Seema is daughter of Anees Chishti and Sumitra Chisthi.[4]
Chishti has a masters degree in Economics from JNU and a bachelors from St. Stephen's College, Delhi.[1]
She worked at HTV and the BBC World Service in London from 1994 to 1996, before she moved to BBC India. She worked at The Indian Express from 2006, where she served as resident editor at Delhi and also deputy editor before discontinuing on 2020.[3][5]
Chishti was married to Sitaram Yechury, politician and previous general secretary of CPIM, and member of parliament.[6]
Books
[edit]- Sumitra and Anees: Tales and Recipes From a Khichdi Family[7]
- Note By Note: The India Story (1947–2017)[8]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Seema Chishti Joins The Wire as Editor". The Wire. Retrieved 2024-10-14.
- ^ "Seema Chishti". The Caravan. Retrieved 2024-10-14.
- ^ a b "Seema Chishti : Author Details". HarperCollins India. Retrieved 2024-10-14.
- ^ "Seema Chishti's new book, on her parents' interfaith marriage, is a compendium of notes from another India". The Indian Express. 2022-05-21. Retrieved 2024-10-15.
- ^ "Seema Chishti". National Foundation For India. 2020-11-17. Retrieved 2024-10-14.
- ^ "Sitaram Yechury Passes away". The Hindu.
- ^ Sumitra and Anees: tales and recipes from a khichdi family. Gurugram, Haryana: HarperCollins Publishers. 2022. ISBN 978-93-5489-588-3.
- ^ Bhardwaj, Ankur; Chishti, Seema; Singh, Sushant (2018). Note by Note: the India story, 1947-2017. Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India: HarperCollins Publishers India. ISBN 978-93-5277-010-6.