Farah Damji
Farah Damji is the publisher and editor of the lifestyle magazine 'Another Generation' for the Indian diaspora of the United Kingdom. The magazine was formerly known as 'Indobrit', but the name was changed due to a legal dispute with another founder partner. She has been described as beautiful and enigmatic, and appears as the "maverick brown voice of acceptable upper-class reason in an otherwise dreadfully confused desi UK". She is the daughter of property tycoon and millionaire Amir Damji, who lives in South Africa and in London. She is the niece of "commentator of the Muslim British Asian" the Yazzmonster, although the two do not speak and the Yazzmonster is disowned by the Damji family. Damji's articles appear frequently in the national broadsheets and also the Birmingham Post. She is at best controversial, with what has been described by the The Daily Telegraph's Media Minx, as a "decidedly chequered past". She is quite unpopular with the British Asian media; "long and libelous" criticism of Damji has been published by the Eastern Eye as well as on websites.
She reached a degree of notoriety in 2003 when she made public details of affairs with two writers: Allan Jenkins, the editor of the Observer magazine, and William Dalrymple, an author. There are rumours of a lucrative book deal connected to her but she has not commented on this. Farah Damji is married to Allan Campbell, a founding partner in a venture capital firm, and has two children, aged 3 and 7. She lives in London, New York and Hampshire.
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