# Seema Chishti

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{{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](/source/Jawaharlal_Nehru_University) (MA) 
[St. Stephen's College](/source/St._Stephen's_College%2C_Delhi) (BA)
| occupation         = Journalist, Editor, Author
| years_active       = 1990–present
| employer           = ''[The Wire](/source/The_Wire_(India))''
| spouse             = [Sitaram Yechury](/source/Sitaram_Yechury) (d. 2024)
| website            = {{URL|https://www.seemachishti.com}}
}}
'''Seema Chishti''' is a journalist and writer from [Delhi](/source/Delhi), India. She is currently one of the editors of the digital news portal ''[The Wire](/source/The_Wire_(India))''. She was editor for the Hindi and Delhi Bureau head for the [BBC](/source/BBC) and a deputy editor at the Indian daily ''[The New Indian Express](/source/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](/source/Sitaram_Yechury), politician and previous general secretary of [CPIM](/source/Communist_Party_of_India_(Marxist)).

==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](/source/St._Stephen's_College%2C_Delhi) and a master's degree in economics from [Jawaharlal Nehru University](/source/Jawaharlal_Nehru_University).<ref name="auto"/>

She worked at HTV and the [BBC World Service](/source/BBC_World_Service) in London from 1994 to 1996, before she moved to [BBC India](/source/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](/source/Sitaram_Yechury), politician and previous general secretary of [CPIM](/source/Communist_Party_of_India_(Marxist)), and [member of parliament](/source/Member_of_Parliament%2C_Rajya_Sabha), 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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