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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Indian journalist and writer}}<br />
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{{Infobox person<br />
| name = Seema Chishti<br />
| image = Seema Chishti.png<br />
| caption = Chishti at "Privacy Supreme" 2019<br />
| citizenship = Indian<br />
| alma_mater = [[Jawaharlal Nehru University]] (MA) <br />
[[St. Stephen's College, Delhi|St. Stephen's College]] (BA)<br />
| occupation = Journalist, Editor, Author<br />
| years_active = 1990–present<br />
| employer = ''[[The Wire (India)|The Wire]]''<br />
| spouse = [[Sitaram Yechury]] (d. 2024)<br />
| website = {{URL|https://www.seemachishti.com}}<br />
}}<br />
'''Seema Chishti''' is a journalist and writer from [[Delhi]], India. She is currently one of the editors of the digital news portal ''[[The Wire (India)|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)''.<ref name="auto">{{Cite web |title=Seema Chishti Joins The Wire as Editor |url=https://thewire.in/media/seema-chishti-joins-the-wire-as-editor |access-date=2024-10-14 |website=The Wire |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Seema Chishti |work=The Caravan |url=https://caravanmagazine.in/author/seema-chishti |access-date=2024-10-14}}</ref><ref name="auto1">{{Cite web |title=Seema Chishti : Author Details |publisher=HarperCollins India |url=https://harpercollins.co.in/author-details/seema-chishti/ |access-date=2024-10-14}}</ref><br />
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Chishti was married to [[Sitaram Yechury]], politician and previous general secretary of [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)|CPIM]].<br />
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==Early life and education ==<br />
Seema is daughter of Anees Chishti and Sumitra Chisthi.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-05-21 |title=Seema Chishti's new book, on her parents' interfaith marriage, is a compendium of notes from another India |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/books-and-literature/seema-chishti-new-book-sumitra-and-anees-tales-and-recipes-from-a-khichdi-family-interfaith-marriage-7928446/ |access-date=2024-10-15 |website=The Indian Express |language=en}}</ref><br />
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Chishti has a bachelor's from [[St. Stephen's College, Delhi]] and a master's degree in economics from [[Jawaharlal Nehru University]].<ref name="auto"/><br />
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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.<ref name="auto1"/><ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-11-17 |title=Seema Chishti |url=https://nfi.org.in/seema-chishti |access-date=2024-10-14 |website=National Foundation For India}}</ref><br />
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Chishti was married to [[Sitaram Yechury]], politician and previous general secretary of [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)|CPIM]], and [[Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha|member of parliament]], before his death in 2024.<ref>{{cite news |title=Sitaram Yechury Passes away |url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/cpim-leader-sitaram-yechury-passes-away/article68633808.ece |website=The Hindu}}</ref><br />
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== Books ==<br />
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* ''Sumitra and Anees: Tales and Recipes From a Khichdi Family''<ref>{{Cite book |title=Sumitra and Anees: tales and recipes from a khichdi family |date=2022 |publisher=HarperCollins Publishers |isbn=978-93-5489-588-3 |location=Gurugram, Haryana}}</ref><br />
* ''Note By Note: The India Story (1947–2017)''<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Bhardwaj |first1=Ankur |title=Note by Note: the India story, 1947-2017 |last2=Chishti |first2=Seema |last3=Singh |first3=Sushant |date=2018 |publisher=HarperCollins Publishers India |isbn=978-93-5277-010-6 |location=Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India}}</ref><br />
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