Anji Kapoor Anji Kapoor was a companion of the Eighth Doctor . Biography . Anji was born in 1973 in Yorkshire . She was a third - generation British - Asian working as a futures trader . ( PROSE : " Escape Velocity " ) She was a Hindu , but hadn ' t visited the temple since she was a child . ( PROSE : " The Crooked World " ) Anji had a brother named Rezaul , who was interested in astronomy . ( PROSE : " Fear Itself " ) She used to baby - sit Rezaul , and vividly remembered the first time that she held him , it being the closest time she came to motherhood . ( PROSE : " Dark Progeny " ) She used to smoke out of his bedroom window whilst their parents were downstairs . When Anji was a child her dad used to take her to see Leeds play football . ( PROSE : " Fear Itself " ) When she started school , she pretended that her name was Angela in an attempt to be accepted . She left home at 17 , stifled by her family ' s antiquated attitudes towards women . She had 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 . ( PROSE : " Escape Velocity " ) When Anji was twenty - eight , her boyfriend , actor and science fiction fan Dave Young , died during a Kulan invasion of Earth . ( PROSE : " Escape Velocity " ) Anji found this hard to deal with . Her grief was so severe that she had Dave clone d . ( PROSE : " Hope " ) Anji drank some Bactrian cocktail s , which left her so ill that she remained in the TARDIS whilst Fitz and the Doctor shared an adventure on Entusso . ( AUDIO : " Fitz ' s Story " ) On the Crooked World , Anji helped the Skeleton Crew to discover the mystery of Scary Manor . ( PROSE : " The Crooked World " ) Anji left the TARDIS when she became the legal guardian of Chloe , a young , time - sensitive girl . She returned to her old job and used some of the knowledge of future trends to make a tidy profit in futures contracts . ( PROSE : " Timeless " ) Anji became engaged to a man named Greg . She had kept in touch with the Doctor ' s later companion , Trix , who fed her stock tips . Anji placed a share of the money in an account for Trix . ( PROSE : " The Gallifrey Chronicles " ) Personality . Anji did not consider herself a hardcore feminist . She favoured science over religion , preferred rational explanations and did not follow her parents ' beliefs in Hindu gods . She rarely went to temple and never wore a sari . She considered her inner self Asian , but regarded George as her patron saint . ( PROSE : " Escape Velocity " ) Anji loved to take long , luxurious baths , ( PROSE : " The Domino Effect " ) sometimes so long the Doctor and Fitz left without her after landing the TARDIS . ( PROSE : " The Crooked World " ) She spoke some French and did not like boats . She was calm in crisis and took rape defence classes in University . Though she had travelled in Europe and the United States , she felt they were too similar to her home and longed to go somewhere truly new — a wish fulfilled when she travelled with the Doctor . The Doctor reminded Anji of her father , whom she was close to while growing up but who had grown distant from her in recent years . ( PROSE : " Escape Velocity " ) Relationship with Fitz . During her travels in the Doctor ' s TARDIS , she was accompanied by Fitz , who had introduced her to the Doctor in the first place . Though she trusted him , there were times when she was very annoyed with his patronising attitude — he had been with the Doctor for much longer and thought of himself as the " senior " companion — or for being chauvinistic — for he was from a significantly earlier part of the 20th century than she . Once , when he had riled her , she thought of him as a " ignorantstupidknuckledraggingsexuallyunconsciousthrowback " and imagined " cathartically hitting him with a chair , too " . ( PROSE : " The Book of the Still " ) When he was excited , rather than worried , about a large boat having mysteriously arrived atop the TARDIS console , she thought him a child . ( PROSE : " The Infinity Race " ) Habits and quirks . Before meeting the Doctor , she usually wore skirts and high heels , but gradually became a much more practical dresser . ( PROSE : " The Crooked World " ) Anji spoke and read French fluently prior to her adventures in the TARDIS . She learned Catalan whilst in Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War . ( PROSE : " History 101 " ) Behind the scenes . Will the real Anji Kapoor please stand up ? Anji Kapoor was an inconsistently written character . Different authors treated the same trait in different ways . One of the clearest instances is her racial background . The series is contradictory as to whether Anji ' s parents were India n or Pakistan i . In her first outing , she thought that " some core part of her , some inner self , was definitely not British or English , but Asia n , Indian . " In her last regular appearance , she was shown to be fiercely hanging on to her identity as an Indian , even rejecting Fitz ' use of the word " Hollywood " , in favour of " Bollywood " . In " The Book of the Still " , she understood Hindi and had a possibly imaginary Uncle Abdul who photographed Indian cities — things arguably inconsistent with her being Pakistani . However , in " The Domino Effect " , Fitz said Anji is " of Pakistani descent " and the Doctor said , " Her grandparents came from Pakistan " . Of course , it ' s perfectly possible for her parents to be Indian and her grandparents to be Pakistani . One could well imagine that her grandparents " were " from what is today called Pakistan , but then moved to India after , making Anji ' s parents Indian . No book ever reconciles the apparent contradiction , however . Eighth Doctor Adventures writer Lance Parkin has described the inconsistencies with Anji ' s character thus : Similarity to Milly from " This Life " . In an article in DWM 294 , Eighth Doctor Adventures editor Justin Richards mentioned that people had asked if Anji was based on Milly , a similar character from the television series . Richards noted that although any similarities were unintended , companions were archetypal " to a degree " .