Seema Mustafa

Seema Mustafa

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Seema Mustafa Profile

  • Name:
  • Seema Mustafa
  • Born / Home Town:
  • Delhi
  • Father:
  • Syed Mustafa

Seema Mustafa Biography

Seema Mustafa is a politician, noted journalist and television personality. Seema has been noted for writing in leftist and socialist perspectives which reflect her communist, feminist and secular thoughts. Seema has been linked to the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and is part of the CPM's Committee to Campaign for an Independent Foreign Policy. Seema has contested in the Lok Sabha elections twice (1991 and 1996) from the Domariaganj constituency in Uttar Pradesh, but lost both times. In 1991, she contested as a candidate of the Indian Congress (Socialist) while in 1996 as an independent candidate. As a journalist, she started off with The Pioneer in Lucknow, and later worked in different journals.

 

Seema Mustafa‏ was born in Delhi, to a family belonging to UP. Her father, Lt. Col. Syed Mustafa was an Indian Army officer. He mother was the niece of Rafi Ahmed Kidwai, a noted freedom fighter and Congress politician. Seema has two elder brothers. Seema graduated in Political Science from Lucknow University. During her college days, she met and married a Hindu businessman. But the couple divorced later. They had two children of whom Agneya Singh is an Indian independent filmmaker, visual artist and documentary photographer.

 

Seema Mustafa began her journalist career with The Pioneer in Lucknow. She joined ‘The Patriot’ in 1979, followed by The Telegraph and Indian Express. She joined the Asian Age in 1997 as its political editor and Delhi bureau chief. During this time, she received the prestigious "Prem Bhatia Award for Excellence in Political Reporting and Analysis" in 1999 for her coverage of the Kargil war. She has also written columns for Deccan Chronicle and Pakistani newspaper - The Dawn. She has also served as Resident Editor of Covert, a fortnightly political magazine.

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Updated: March 06, 2014

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