Seema Mustafa

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Seema Mustafa (born 20 April 1955) is an Indian print and television journalist. She is currently the Editor-in-Chief of The Citizen, a digital newspaper she founded. She is the elected president of the Editors Guild of India, since 16 October 2020.

Background and education

Seema Mustafa was born in

MP belonging to the Congress party.[3]

Mustafa has two elder brothers, S.P. Mustafa (known as "Bobby"), group treasurer of

M&A of Citibank.[5] Ayesha Kidwai, a professor of linguistics at JNU and a feminist activist, is her first cousin.[6] Seema's mother and Ayesha's father were siblings.[citation needed
]

Mustafa graduated with a

Lucknow University in Uttar Pradesh.[7]

Career

Mustafa began her career in journalism with

Asian Age in 1997 as its political editor and Delhi bureau chief.[8]

While with the Asian Age, Mustafa received the prestigious "Prem Bhatia Award for Excellence in Political Reporting and Analysis" in 1999 for her coverage of the

MJ Akbar, founding editor of The Asian Age, defended Mustafa strongly and the newspaper propagated the same views as hers on its pages. Ultimately, M.J. Akbar and Mustafa were both sacked from The Asian Age.[citation needed
]

After leaving the Asian Age in 2008, Mustafa worked as Resident Editor of

NewsX television news channels. After the sale, Akbar moved to the India Today group, while Mustafa moved to NewsX, hosting a weekly interview programme named Straight Talk With Seema Mustafa on that channel. She served as National Affairs Editor of News X. The program did not get enough TRPs (viewership), and Mustafa moved on again.[10]

She next took over the job of Director of a new,

left-wing think-tank based in New Delhi named the "Centre for Policy Analysis" [1] (not to be confused with the eminent Delhi-based think-tank, the Centre for Policy Research), a position she presently holds. Concurrently, in January 2014, she founded The Citizen, an independent "Digital Daily" based out of New Delhi.[11]

Mustafa is the president of the Editors Guild of India,[12] elected on 16 October 2020.[13]

Writing style

Mustafa has been noted for having a characteristic

socialist perspective.[14][unreliable source?][15]

Political career

Mustafa has been associated with several communist and socialist political parties since the 1980s. She wrote the authorised biography of former prime minister

VP Singh, entitled The Lonely Prophet, and was closely associated with him during his lifetime.[16] She was a member of his party, the Janata Dal, for many years. She once contested the UP provincial assembly elections as a Janata Dal candidate but lost.[17][unreliable source?
]

Mustafa also contested parliamentary elections to the

Indian National Congress (Socialist), itself a splinter of the Congress party.[18][19][20] In 1996, she contested as an independent candidate.[21]

In 2012–13, Mustafa associated herself with the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) in its campaign to pressure the government of India to oppose the US and support Iran on the issue of Iran's right to develop nuclear weapons. Mustafa is part of the CPM's Committee to Campaign for an Independent Foreign Policy.[22][23] She has of course written extensively in opposition to the Indo-US Nuclear Agreement.

Publications

  • Mustafa, Seema (1995). The Lonely Prophet: V.P. Singh, a Political Biography. New Delhi: New Age International.
    OCLC 33664491
    .
  • Mustafa, Seema; Anuradha M. Chenoy and Initiative for National Renewal and Empowerment of the People (1995). The Scam: The Cover-up and Compromise. New Delhi: Wiley Eastern. .
  • Mustafa, Seema (2012). Azadi's Daughter: Journey of a Liberal Muslim. New Delhi: ImprintOne. .
  • Mustafa, Seema (2013). Journalism: Ethics and Responsibilities. New Delhi: Pragun Publications. .

References

  1. ^ "What Seema Mustafa's memoir, Azadi's Daughter, tells you about Indian Muslims". Hindustan Times. 16 August 2017.
  2. ^ Kafila
  3. ^ "rajyasabha.nic.in" (PDF).
  4. ^ "Financial Express, Mustafa Appointed Treasure M&A Head" (Mailing list).
  5. ^ "Kamal Mustafa Biography" (Mailing list). Archived from the original on 18 June 2010.
  6. ^ Kafila
  7. ^ "Play on thumri queen Begum Akhtar". The Times of India. 21 November 2004. Archived from the original on 16 October 2012. Retrieved 11 August 2008.
  8. ^ "Profile". sunday-guardian.com. Retrieved 25 May 2019.
  9. ^ "The Citizen – Independent Journalism | Indian News". The Citizen. Retrieved 25 May 2019.
  10. ^ "Journalist Seema Mustafa asks if 'brainwashed' journalists are pushing hate and tripe". thenewsminute.com. 25 February 2015. Retrieved 25 May 2019.
  11. ^ "The Citizen – Independent Journalism | Indian News | the Citizen".
  12. ^ "Seema Mustafa elected as president of Editors Guild of India". Tribune India News Service. PTI. 17 October 2020. Retrieved 15 October 2021.
  13. ^ "In First Ever Election, Seema Mustafa Becomes Editors Guild of India's President". The Wire. 17 October 2020. Retrieved 15 October 2021.
  14. ^ "JoeB" (29 April 2000). "Minorities do not deserve this". Newsgroupsoc.culture.indian. Retrieved 11 August 2008.
  15. ^ [email protected] (Mo) (23 July 1999). "Kargil communalisation". Newsgroupsoc.culture.pakistan. Retrieved 11 August 2008.{{cite newsgroup}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  16. ^ "Do Indian writers tell it as it is?". The Times of India. 25 March 2001. Retrieved 11 August 2008.
  17. ^ "Christians in India, Sonia Gandhi BJP The world? Vol. 1". Hindustan.org. Archived from the original on 27 September 2007. Retrieved 11 August 2008.
  18. ^ "Polling Booth: Election' 96: Uttar Pradesh/Domariaganj". Rediff.com. Retrieved 11 August 2008.
  19. ^ "List of Participating Political Parties". Statistical Report on General Elections, 1991 to the Tenth Lok Sabha (PDF). New Delhi: Election Commission of India. 1992. pp. 1–4. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 May 2008. Retrieved 11 August 2008.
  20. ^ "List of Participating Political Parties". Statistical Report on General Elections, 1996 to the Eleventh Lok Sabha (PDF). New Delhi: Election Commission of India. pp. 1–6. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 February 2008. Retrieved 11 August 2008.
  21. ^ "List of Participating Political Parties". Statistical Report on General Elections, 1996 to the Eleventh Lok Sabha (PDF). New Delhi: Election Commission of India. pp. 1–6. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 February 2008. Retrieved 11 August 2008.
  22. ^ "Committee to Campaign for an Independent Foreign Policy" (Press release). Communist Party of India (Marxist). 10 October 2005. Archived from the original on 8 January 2006. Retrieved 11 August 2008.
  23. The Tribune
    . 11 October 2005. Retrieved 11 August 2008.