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@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
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As a reporter and an editor, Kuldip Nayar’s home was the newsroom of The Indian Express. Where he will live forever.
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In Uttar Pradesh, District Magistrates love the National Security Act — to arrest without charge or trial. The Allahabad High Court strikes down their orders over 75% of the time. @kaunain_s unpacks this vital pushback. An Express Investigation
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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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Lockdown is harsh but a few weeks of it will cut the spread; set up a war-room for supplies; get vaccines from everywhere. Dr Fauci prescribes, with a post-script: Hang in there, help each other, it will end. An Express Interview, by ⁦ @missmishma
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Each Board topper is an outlier. But when Ritika ⁦ @KhurafatiChopra ⁩, tracked down 86 of them, she found that the arcs of their lives map an India story. Of ambition and achievement — and the chasm in between. An Express Investigation
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3 years
Honoured and grateful to receive this, in my corner of the @indianexpress newsroom
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TagorePrize
3 years
Thrilled that our Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize 2020 statuette has been awarded from @RakeshSaawariya TagorePrize Project Manager to @rajkamaljha Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize 2020 winner for his #novel #TheCityandtheSea @gettleman @IndianExpress @MeruGokhale
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Every box was checked: Aadhaar, bank account, fingerprints, web filing. But poor minority kids didn’t get the Central scholarship — the sharks did. ⁦ @abhishekangad ⁩ goes door to door, school to school, to crack the scam open. An Express Investigation
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7 times bitten, never shy. As global elite find new ways to hide their riches, good journalism finds new ways to seek. ⁦ @IndianExpress ⁩ reporters & editors, with ⁦ @ICIJorg ⁩, investigate Pandora Papers. Series starts today. Proud and privileged.
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⁦The last time, ⁦ @RTIExpress ⁩ and ⁦ @Tweetsandeep ⁩ were part of the team that cracked Pandora papers: secret offshore trusts. This time, they went a little closer home, to Ayodhya. To look for who bought land. An Express Investigation.
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Thank you @TagorePrize , @MeruGokhale , @sorcerical , @DGALitAgents . And the two kids, one woman, and a few men who led me, in the December dark, through the city and the sea.
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TagorePrize
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Raj Kamal Jha for his novel – The City and the Sea wins Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize 2020. Read more at : #TagorePrize2020 #awards #literature #poetry #education #authors #novelists #literaryprizes #peace #love #celebration #arts
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The Prime Minister’s interview to The Indian Express.
@IndianExpress
The Indian Express
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#LokSabhaElections2019 PM @narendramodi 's full interview to The Indian Express.
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“The fact remains that getting people right is not what living is all about anyway. It's getting them wrong that is living, getting them wrong and wrong and wrong and then, on careful reconsideration, getting them wrong again.” Philip Roth, American Pastoral. Thank you, Goodbye.
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An Express Investigation, Part 1. Prime accused: @iyervaidy , @Tweetsandeep , @khushboo_n , @RTIExpress , @mazoomdaar and the Ritu (proudly not on Twitter) Sarin. Part 2 tonight. #PandoraPapers .
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It’s hard for a reporter to have to leave a story untold — just when it starts to unfold. So Letter From Kabul by ⁦⁦ @ShubhajitRoy ⁩ becomes a Letter To Kabul. A thank-you note to a city for its kindness and courage in the face of fear and despair.
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Handwritten log at health centres, Excel sheet at headquarters, list those tested for Covid by name, age, phone number. That’s on paper. ⁦ @santoshchitra ⁩ tracks down 600 entries in 3 districts to check what’s on the ground. An Express Investigation.
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On October 22, 2008, @smitagnair listened as Hemant Karkare broke one silence. Today, she listens as his daughter breaks another.
@IndianExpress
The Indian Express
5 years
Jui Navare, daughter of former Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) chief Hemant Karkare, said that she wants everyone to remember that “even in his death he was trying to save his city, his country”. In conversation with @smitagnair
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This February, @santoshchitra scoured records to reveal dodgy testing in rural Bihar, ringing an early alarm of how the Covid ball had been dropped. This month, the story came home — the second wave took his father away. A reporter’s notes, a son’s tears.
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One afternoon, one evening, one night, on her way home from work, my mother went missing... That’s how it opens. Thank you Manasi @sorcerical , Meru @MeruGokhale , and David @DGALitAgents for helping it close — and set sail into the city and the sea.
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Manasi Subramaniam
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'Reading this is to dive into the darkness and spot a piercing ray of light' - Shabana Azmi 'An extraordinary combination of philosophy and allegory' - Amartya Sen 'Disturbing and relentless' - Githa Hariharan 'A terrific storyteller' - K.R. Meera Forthcoming on 25 April.
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Thank you, Ritu, @kaunain_s , @mazoomdaar , @santoshchitra amd @mihirsv . For your stories. Of dodgy surgeries & faulty implants putting lives at risk. Of abuse of children going unchecked in a shelter. And young men and women dreaming big in a small town. Waiting for your next.
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Nirupama Subramanian
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⁦An abundance of @IndianExpress ⁩ at the Red Ink awards in Mumbai. Ritu sarin (left) ⁦ @kaunain_s ⁩ (right) @santoshchitra (Centre) ⁦ @mazoomdaar ⁩ (not in picture) and ⁦⁦ @mihirsv ⁩ (not in picture) 😊 3 categories, 5 winners. Lovely.
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Investigated, now booked. Congratulations, Ritu Sarin, @iyervaidy and @mazoomdaar . Thank you @ICIJorg and @RyleGerard .
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Gerard Ryle
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Penguin To Publish India Story Of #PanamaPapers Investigation
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With the courageous ⁦ @mariaressa ⁩ at ⁦ @IPI_WoCo ⁩ after discussing how to do our job better. For one, standing up to Rodrigo Duterte is fine journalism.
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“Everyone thought he was dead.” First sentence, The Book of Illusions, Paul Auster (1947-2024)
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Meru @MeruGokhale , Manasi @sorcerical , David @DGALitAgents , thank you for your faith. In the woman who couldn’t come home and a child who set out in search. Thank you Anil @anildharker at @tatalitlive , for creating the space we need. In the city and the sea.
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Manasi Subramaniam
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The brilliant, wonderful and heartbreaking novel The City and the Sea by @rajkamaljha wins the Book of the Year (Fiction) award at the @tatalitlive awards!
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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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“I am 60 plus, at this age I’m changing. Kuch ghul mil gaya hai, aab-o-hawa mein (something has infiltrated the very air).” @VanditaMishraIE ⁩ travels 7 days, 700 km picking up such precious straws in the Uttar Pradesh wind.
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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 .
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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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Yakub Memon gets the tears, what do we get? Abhinav Kumar, IPS, scribbles a note from a thulla http://t.co/RlbWn8N2km
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Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull, wrote George Orwell in his 1984. Is even that space shrinking? That’s Opening Argument, a new column in ⁦ @IndianExpress ⁩. Proud to welcome ⁦ @MenakaGuruswamy ⁩.
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A photo gathbandhan in Geneva. Discussing press freedom with the twin pillars of @dawn_com , Zaffar Abbas @abbasz55 and Cyril Almeida @cyalm at @IPI_WoCo . Cyril gets the IPI Press Freedom Hero Award. Congratulations for telling a story without fear or favour.
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A court verdict used out of context, an SC ruling ignored, a law rushed through, due process given the go by: ⁦ @apurva_hv ⁩ investigates how UP officials recover damages in protests against the new citizenship law. An Express Investigation.
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5 years
The freedom to take a picture.
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Reuters journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, finally reunited with their children as free men. My heart is full.
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@dwivedi71 ⁩, as always, goes where the camera can’t — looking for the light that Sunday night
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Dodgy devices, shady surgeries, lives at risk: For investigating the implant bazaar, Honourable Mention for The Indian Express at #SOPAwards2019 . Reporting by Ritu Sarin, Kaunain Sheriff @kaunain_s , Jay Mazoomdaar ⁦ @mazoomdaar ⁩ prompted action.
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Raj Kamal Jha
3 years
@indianexpress is proud to be part of this global newsroom with @ICIJorg and @BuzzFeedNews . Ritu Sarin, @RTIExpress , @mazoomdaar , @Tweetsandeep and @khushboo_n investigated the India dossier of #FinCENfiles to lift one more corporate veil in global money flows. Work in progress.
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ICIJ
3 years
The #FinCENFiles investigation is a finalist for the 2021 Pulitzer Prize in International Reporting, bringing more acclaim to the groundbreaking project on dirty money flows by @ICIJorg , @BuzzFeedNews and more than 100 other media partners around the world.
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Pandemic assignment by @AmitChaudhuri . Unwitting co-conspirators @sakshi_dayal , @rubberneckin and @purirenuka . Image, text, page, and a girl called Sky.
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Amit Chaudhuri
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I asked @rajkamaljha to think about how he approached the same material as a novelist and as a journalist and editor. Here’s his fascinating response, a reworked version of his talk at the symposium on deprofessionalisation a few years ago:
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Don't take Mrs Gandhi and her son too seriously, @tavleen_singh tells the Prime Minister http://t.co/H4p8xiAsXl
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“We are reinforced by each other’s freedoms, and weakened by state or society-sanctioned discrimination against any set of citizens.”
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Menaka Guruswamy
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Today one the one year anniversary of the Johar Judgment I write: Our pride, our Constitution | The Indian Express via @IndianExpress
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@KhurafatiChopra ’s stellar reporting cracked the EC open and brought the @indianexpress its fifth IPI @globalfreemedia award. A testament to the investigative energy of the @indianexpress newsroom and some remarkable, tough-love editors @ravishkt , @iyervaidy , @unnishanker
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IPI - The Global Network for Independent Media
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Congratulations to @KhurafatiChopra - and to the @IndianExpress , which receives its 4th (!) IPI-India Award for Excellence in Journalism. @rajkamaljha @iyervaidy
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@TenzingLamsang , Founder and Editor of @thebhutanese , a growing space for good journalism in Bhutan. Also knows which Thimphu bar to go to — if you are a little old.
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Good catching up with my former boss, @rajkamaljha Chief Editor of the Indian Express Newspaper. To give you an idea of the man, he kept introducing me as a former colleague though he was the Editor to my Editors. Also, he, on his own, met & talked to 25 Bhutanese in 2 days.
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The other dossier: @praveenswami on Pak suspects who were arrested here, quietly sent back after cases collapsed http://t.co/fW9EGOAgvL
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The defeated Rahul is working on his future by trying to wreck Modi's present, writes @tavleen_singh http://t.co/dDJiz7Wj2t
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Meanwhile, His Excellency, the Governor of Gujarat, custodian of the Constitution http://t.co/zO4GIqqXjY
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@surajyengde , welcome to the @indianexpress . Watch His Space.
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suraj yengde
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From today onwards I’ll curate a fortnightly column “DALITALITY” at @IndianExpress An exclusive column in English language Indian newspaper to engage with Dalitality. Do watch out the Sunday space and send suggestions if you may have any. New authors are welcome #DalitLove
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The zeroes in NGO: India has 31 lakh of them, more than double the number of schools, reports @utkarsh_aanand http://t.co/3a1riWrDd6
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Amartya Sen's conversations with @tavleen_singh and @pbmehta . Art by @crsasikumar I The Argumentative @IndianExpress http://t.co/VxECDcxY9l
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5 years
Thank you, @MeruGokhale , co-accused.
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Meru Gokhale
5 years
‘A gripping narrative of human predicament and surviving hope, yielding an extraordinary combination of philosophy and allegory. A book you have to read.’ - Amartya Sen on ⁦ @rajkamaljha ⁩’s new novel ‘The City and The Sea’.
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4 years
Thank you David @DGALitAgents , Lisette @Lisetteverhagen and Philippa @PhilippaSitters .
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DGA
4 years
Congratulations @rajkamaljha for winning Book of the Year at @tatalitlive ! Such wonderful news for a brilliant book.
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Hanging, the waterbottle and the doll. Praveen Khanna's photo in @IndianExpress http://t.co/3mnN8ppkWg
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Raj Kamal Jha
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Happy Diwali and nothing but Happy Diwali
@IndianExpress
The Indian Express
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#ExpressOpinion Diwali does not have a singular, unchanging meaning: Ramesh Venkataraman |
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Confident, hopeful -- and a bit on the backfoot: @pbmehta analyses The Address http://t.co/7kRgDduMsR
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72 first-year students at IIT get a second chance but who has learned from their failure? @umavishnu investigates http://t.co/wu0kJKb3Xa
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@woahjourno buys a platform ticket on India's busiest railway route and watches 24 hours of life and drama unfold http://t.co/dF53wuwcJZ
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IIT says we are blind to your background, failing students say please look at us. @umavishnu reports from Roorkee http://t.co/Sjz3NgoIda
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Frustration meets impatience meets entitlement meets youth, @gopalreports explains the Gujarat anger http://t.co/agd8IoJiNH
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Who are the barbarians at the ivory tower gates? @pbmehta shines the light | The Indian Express http://t.co/GhamOOcwDB
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Before you let Yakub Memon hang, read something, please, a judge tells his former colleagues in the highest court http://t.co/oAnEvUzpZf
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They do verse, @i_and_iy does prose http://t.co/F1VjR9eFgy
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Wheels of justice: I have been told to go soft on accused (Hindu extremists), Public Prosecutor to @IndianExpress http://t.co/rnHu2MQZFX
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In which @pbmehta lends his ear to the sound of loud. http://t.co/vmGvcF1Huc
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Tell me, what do you know about your neighbours? You have no idea what they really think: the amazing Michael Haneke http://t.co/pN8Jc31FK8
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East of Mumbai, a grandmother sets out in search of a daily wage and a pail of drinking water. @iyerkavi follows her http://t.co/i6wniV4sxp
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The swayamsevak, microbiologist and the event manager tells @VanditaMishraIE how he helps bring the house down http://t.co/E67St0M7KI
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How Ramnath Goenka Refused to Compromise the Indian Express during the Emergency
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Objection, Your Honour: One day, I will tell my child her father was a rapist. @arunjei reports http://t.co/IK6qiL3b02
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Elections: Ghosts of 23 kids, a grave, a new kitchen, freshly painted lunch menu, 150 hungry children, @santoshchitra http://t.co/aDOctb3pDP
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