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. The canonicity of the novels with respect to the television series, like other Doc...
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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. The canonicity of the novels with respect to the television series, like other Doctor Who spin-offs, is open to interpretation.
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 stockbroker, viewing it like playing a game of chess. Anji thrived on making money, but also understood that possessions only gave one so much happiness.
Not counting herself among hardcore feminists, she favoured the sciences over religion, preferring rational...
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