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Seema Chishti is the Editor at The Wire, with publications in both domestic and foreign media.
Seema Chishti is in charge of The Wireโs English, Hindi and Urdu editions and is accountable to the Editorial Board, comprising the three Founding Editors, whose primary role is setting the broad editorial direction and policy of The Wire, expanding its reach and ensuring its financial sustainability.
Who is Seema Chishti wife of Sitaram Yechury, biography, age, family, father, husband, children and religion
Meet Seema Chishti!
– Board Member of Accessnow. Org
– Editor of The Wire.Yesterday, those who claimed their Iphone is hacked, they received this Accessnow. Org link for help.
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โ Mudit Jain (@Mudiiittt) November 1, 2023
Seema Chishti stands 5 feet 5 inches tall and was born in Delhi from where she did her education as well but her DOB isn’t known. She is however believed to be aged between 60-70 years.
Her mother Sumitra who was an economist was a Kshatriya Hindu from Mysore in Karnataka, and Anees her father who was a journalist, a Syed Muslim from Deoria in Uttar Pradesh. Her husband Sitaram was a Telugu speaking Hindu Brahmin.
Her husband, 72-year-old General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), Sitaram Yechury passed away in AIIMS Delhi on 12 September where he was undergoing treatment since the last few days. Yechury began his political career as a JNU student activist and rose to the position of General Secretary of the CPI (M) in 2015. His wife Seema Chishti and two children survive him, daughter Akhila, and son Daanish while 34-year-old son, Ashish Yechury, died of Covid in 2021.
Seema Chishti career
Seema Chishti has worked as a reporter, author, researcher, presenter, educator, and editor for many years. Beginning with the 1990 reforms and the demolition of the Babri Masjid, which she covered for Hindustan Times Television, a video magazine that existed before news television channels in India, she has written and reported extensively on almost all of the major issues of the past three decades.
Sitaram Yechury, one of the pillars of CPIM, pivot of Left-Cong-led UPA & husband of news portal The Wire editor Seema Chishti, passes away at 72.
The family had faced trauma in 2021 too when the coupleโs son Ashish passed away at 35 while battling COVID.
RIP @SitaramYechury pic.twitter.com/agQHpLxbP4
โ Rohan Dua (@rohanduaT02) September 12, 2024
In addition, she was a founding member of The India Cable newsletter. She had previously worked at The Indian Express for 14 years in a variety of roles, including resident editor in Delhi, before departing in 2020 to become deputy editor.
At the BBC, where she worked for several years before joining The Indian Express, Chishti served as Editor, Hindi and Head of Delhi Bureau, BBC World Service. Between 1994 and 1998, she worked as a producer and subsequently as an anchor of a daily Hindi nighttime news broadcast, initially based in London and subsequently in New Delhi.
Chishti is the author of two books: Note By Note (2018), co-authored with Ankur Bhardwaj and Sushant Singh, which traces the history of independent India through Hindi film songs, and Sumitra and Anees: Tales and Recipes From a Khichdi Family (2022), in which she describes her parents’ interfaith marriage through the recipes that were prepared most frequently in their kitchen.