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Amol Rajan


Amol Rajan (born 4 July 1983) is the BBC's Media Editor, having taken up the role in December 2016. Rajan was formerly editor of The Independent newspaper from June 2013. When The Independent announced it was dropping the print edition in February 2016, and continuing as only an online operation, Rajan was retained for a period as "editor-at-large".

Rajan was born in Calcutta, India; he was three when his family moved to England; he was raised in Tooting, south London. The son of Hindu parents, he has not believed in any god since the age of 15. He was state school educated at Graveney School, then a comprehensive, and read English at Downing College, Cambridge, where he contributed to Varsity. He was Editor of the student newspaper for a term in 2005. At the age of 18, Rajan worked in the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) for one year during his gap year.

Rajan was the secondary presenter on The Wright Stuff, the daytime talk show on the Five network, during its 2006-7 season. He was also a researcher on the programme.

He joined the The Independent newspaper in August 2007 where he was over the next few years a news reporter, sports correspondent, columnist, comment editor and editor of Independent Voices. He has also written a Monday column for the London Evening Standard, restaurant criticism for The Independent on Sunday and has contributed to The Salisbury Review. The latter publication, according to Rajan, "still publishes writing on politics, history and culture that is among the finest produced in English today. It is frequently offensive and I cannot say I often agree with its editorial position, but that is all the more reason to read it."


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