Raj Kamal Jha
@rajkamaljha
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Chief Editor, The Indian Express, @indianexpress; author, most recently, of ‘The Patient in Bed Number 12’ (Penguin Hamish Hamilton); @USCAnnenberg, @IITKgp
New Delhi, Gurgaon, India
Joined January 2009
“I want to put everything down on a piece of paper.” Thank you and Farewell.
indianexpress.com
"In that event, what would have happened? A few condolences, perhaps even from important people. 'Irreparable loss.' Perhaps a posthumous Padma Bhushan or Padma Vibhushan. A few obituaries," Debroy...
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“Everyone thought he was dead.” First sentence, The Book of Illusions, Paul Auster (1947-2024).
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RT @shahfaesal: Two perfect books to gift:. Strategic Choices and Ethical Dilemmas by @AmritaNarlikar @amitabhmattoo . The Patient in Bed N….
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RT @PenguinIndia: Battle of the Books! ⚔️ Fiction Edition.a) confessions from parents to children (and vice-versa).b) meditation on the per….
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RT @PenguinIndia: Which of these hot new releases do you want to cozy up with tonight?. @Satchida @nishi_chawla @tportnowitz @VivekShanbhag….
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RT @PenguinIndia: Bored by your current read?. Pick this up instead to feel your heart swell, surge, and break. Don't say we didn't warn yo….
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RT @sorcerical: Out now from @rajkamaljha, India's novelist of the newsroom, a tapestry of hope and heartbreak, and a searing investigation….
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‘Dear Nisha, meaning night, I am infected, please keep your child away from me.’.This is how he begins, The Patient in Bed Number 12, just before he flies out his hospital window — to heal our ailing city. Thank you Manasi @sorcerical, Milee @mileeashwarya, and David @DGA.
Out now from @rajkamaljha, India's novelist of the newsroom, a tapestry of hope and heartbreak, and a searing investigation of the pulse of India: a billion-plus young people, restless and ambitious, yearning for the new—and yet haunted by the old ghosts of rage and resentment.
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Behind the comfort of an app that can summon a ride anywhere anytime, an untold story of pulling strings, cutting corners. Ritu Sarin, @RTIexpress, @mohanreports scour #UberFiles. Investigation by @IndianExpress with @ICIJorg, our 8th and counting.
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The Uber Files: The victim had filed an original compensation case in 2015, followed by an invasion of privacy suit in 2017 over Uber’s top executives accessing her medical records.
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RT @RitikaChopra__: In the last part of our investigation on NCERT textbooks, we look at the key people involved in drafting the new school….
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From a national co-convenor of Swadeshi Jagran Manch to the chief of Vidya Bharati, 24 members with RSS links, some of them serving functionaries, figure in at least 17 of 25 NCF national focus...
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Those we love come with their own surprises. A grandmother’s wisdom, soft-wrapped in memory, is passed on to @MenakaGuruswamy
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Menaka Guruswamy writes: Summer vacations in Hyderabad connected me to my beloved grandmother, my family's journey, my roots. Those memories continue to shape who I am
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RT @BaruahSukrita: 🚨 We join class 5 A in their classroom. PART 2 is a week by week snapshot of teacher Neha's work plans, classroom activi….
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The last time they were physically in school was in Class 2, just before the pandemic shut down their classroom and upended their lives at home, too. So Neha Sharma’s students, back to begin Class 5,...
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RT @umavishnu: @BaruahSukrita, with her notebook, and @abhinavsaha, with his camera, sit through each of the 28 mathematics lessons of Clas….
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The last time they were physically in school was in Class 2, just before the pandemic shut down their classroom and upended their lives at home, too. So Neha Sharma’s students, back to begin Class 5,...
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Covid locked kids out of their school. When they returned, @SukritaBaruah and @abhinavsaha sat in, for over five weeks, in a maths class, to investigate how a group of 10-year-olds, with teacher Neha Ma’am, are working hard to recover what they lost.
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Over two months, The Indian Express tracked a mathematics class of 10-year-olds in a Delhi government school to find how a teacher is racing against time to plug their critical learning gaps in the...
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An IAS officer makes @AndrewAmsan and @abhinavsaha do watchdog duty.
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Built for the 2010 Commonwealth Games, the centrally located sporting complex is a multi-discipline facility that attracts national and state athletes, and footballers.
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RT @readingagency: From 1992-2001, the panel have selected books by Michael Ondaatje, Carol Shields, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Rohinton Mistry, Ea….
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RT @RS_Paris: Ce roman à la dimension rare, inclassable et déstabilisant, associant recherche de la véritable identité et interrogations ps….
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Ravish Tiwari’s shoes cannot be filled but they shall sit in a very special corner of the Express newsroom for ever. They will help us land on our feet. Thank you to all who have him in your prayers today. Goodbye, my dear.
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Tiwari led a team of senior journalists at The Indian Express who covered the Union Government, including state and national elections, the Prime Minister’s Office, national security, strategic...
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Set the bar, then keep lowering it to walk over. @mazoomdaar finds this pattern in environmental clearances to six key projects and explains why. An Express Investigation
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There are six mega projects across key sectors, cleared between 2004 and 2020. In each, stringent conditions to compensate for the project's high environmental impact have been sidestepped, ignored...
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