[1] At the age of 17, Kapur was recruited by All India Radio (AIR) to sing songs in Punjabi and Pashto for a children's programme and read the news in Hindi.
[6][7] She was involved when in 1966 her husband Mahendra launched the Gaylord restaurant in Mortimer Street near Broadcasting House in London, saying “He understands masala”.
[2] She and her husband were often invited to high profile events, meeting Queen Elizabeth II and often going to Number 10 Downing Street during the Thatcher era.
In an interview with Pervaiz Alam, a former BBC colleague, she said she wanted to take three books with her on her final journey "something by Toni Morrison (“I am willing to touch her feet”), a translation from Japanese literature and Michelle Obama’s Becoming".
She would admonish "tall Englishman she bumped into" to “Look up.”[1] Kaul died peacefully in her sleep on Tuesday 31 August 2021, aged 92, at the Golden Estate in Faridabad near Delhi.