Anji Kapoor

Anji Kapoor
Doctor Who character
First appearance	Escape Velocity
Last appearance	Timeless The Gallifrey Chronicles (cameo)
Portrayed by	None
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Affiliated	Eighth Doctor
Species	Human
Home planet	Earth
Home era	2001

Anji Kapoor, or simply Anji, is a fictional character in the Eighth Doctor Adventures, a novel series based upon the British science fiction television series, Doctor Who. The Eighth Doctor first met her in the novel Escape Velocity by Colin Brake, and she went on to become one of his companions. She is the first significant Asian recurring character in Doctor Who.

Anji was born in 1973 and was 28 years old when she first met the Eighth Doctor and Fitz Kreiner in 2001. She is a third-generation British-Asian and worked as a futures trader. She spent a year studying in Boston and loved being a , viewing it like playing a game of chess. Anji thrived on making money, but also understood that possessions only gave one so much happiness.

The series is contradictory as to whether her parents are Indian or Pakistani. Not counting herself among hardcore feminists, she favoured the sciences over religion, preferring rational explanations and not adhering to her parents' beliefs in the Hindu gods. As a result, she rarely went to temple and never wore a sari. She considered her inner self as Asian, although she regarded George as her patron saint. The Doctor reminded Anji of her father, whom she was close with when she was growing up but who had grown distant from her in later years.

She speaks some French, does not like boats, is calm in a crisis and took rape defence classes in University. Although she had travelled through Europe and the United States, she felt the experience too much like home and longed to go somewhere truly new—a wish that was fulfilled when she began to travel with the Doctor.

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