{{Short description|Indian journalist and writer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2025}} {{Use Indian English|date=January 2025}} {{Infobox person | name = Seema Chishti | image = Seema Chishti.png | caption = Chishti at "Privacy Supreme" 2019 | citizenship = Indian | alma_mater = Jawaharlal Nehru University (MA) St. Stephen's College (BA) | occupation = Journalist, Editor, Author | years_active = 1990–present | employer = ''The Wire'' | spouse = Sitaram Yechury (d. 2024) | website = {{URL|https://www.seemachishti.com}} }} '''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)''.<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>
Chishti was married to Sitaram Yechury, politician and previous general secretary of CPIM.
==Early life and education == 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>
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"/>
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>
Chishti was married to Sitaram Yechury, politician and previous general secretary of CPIM, and 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>
== Books ==
* ''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> * ''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>
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