Fatima Zakaria was the editor of the Mumbai Times, and later the Sunday editor of The Times of India.
15 Facts About Fatima Zakaria
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Fatima Zakaria served as the editor of the Taj magazine of the Taj Hotels.
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In 1963, Zakaria began her career in journalism as a children's columnist in The Illustrated Weekly of India and worked as Khushwant Singh's assistant editor.
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Fatima Zakaria joined The Times of India in 1970 and rose through the ranks to become Sunday edition editor.
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Fatima Zakaria joined the Taj Group of Hotels to establish the first-rate five-star hotel, The Taj Residency, on the campus of Maulana Azad College of Arts and Science in Aurangabad.
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Fatima Zakaria became editor of the coffee table magazine Taj.
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Fatima Zakaria's office was located in the Taj Mahal Hotel in Mumbai.
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Fatima Zakaria was on the board of Institute of Hotel Management, Aurangabad.
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Fatima Zakaria was the president of Maulana Azad Education Society and chairman of Maulana Azad Educational Trust, both in Aurangabad.
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Fatima Zakaria is regarded as a secularist and she took special care to cater to the educational needs of the Muslims.
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Fatima Zakaria was the second wife of Rafiq Fatima Zakaria, who was an Indian politician and Islamic religious cleric.
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The elder, Tasneem Fatima Zakaria Mehta, is an art historian and writer, living in Mumbai.
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The second is Mansoor Fatima Zakaria, a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur who is a partner in a wealth management firm.
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Fatima Zakaria's elder biological son, Arshad Zakaria, runs a hedge fund while her younger biological son, Fareed Zakaria, is a political commentator and journalist, and host of Fareed Zakaria GPS on CNN.
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Fatima Zakaria died from COVID-19 at the Kamalnayan Bajaj Hospital in Aurangabad on 6 April 2021.