Seema Mustafa

Seema Mustafa is an Indian print and television journalist. She is currently the Editor-in-Chief of The Citizen, a digital newspaper founded by her.

Seema Mustafa was born in Delhi on to a muslim family hailing from Uttar Pradesh with long-standing connections to the Congress party. Her father, Lt. Col. Syed Mustafa, was an officer in the Indian Army. Her mother was the daughter of Shafi Ahmed Kidwai, brother of Rafi Ahmed Kidwai, a noted freedom fighter and Congress politician. Shafi Ahmed Kidwai, who lived in Mussoorie, was killed in 1947, at the time of the partition of India. His wife Anis Kidwai (Seema's maternal grandmother) was later made a Rajya Sabha MP belonging to the Congress party.

Seema has two elder brothers, S.P. Mustafa (known as "Bobby"), group treasurer of Hindustan Unilever, and Kamal Mustafa, now retired but formerly the Head of Global M&A of Citibank. Seema is a first cousin on the feminist and communist ideologue, Ayesha Kidwai, who is a leading activist, propagandist and professor of linguistics at Jawaharlal Nehru University. Seema's mother and Ayesha's father were siblings.

Seema graduated with a BA in Political Science from Lucknow University in Uttar Pradesh. During her college days, she met and married a Hindu businessman and had two children, a son Agneya Singh and a daughter Gayeti Singh. She and her husband are now divorced.

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