Raj Kamal Jha
@rajkamaljha
Chief Editor, The Indian Express, @indianexpress; author, most recently, of ‘The Patient in Bed Number 12’ (Penguin Hamish Hamilton); @USCAnnenberg, @IITKgp
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http://indianexpress.com 19-01-2009 17:49:56
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Strategic Choices and Ethical Dilemmas by Amrita Narlikar Amitabh Mattoo
The Patient in Bed Number 12 by Raj Kamal Jha
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Out now from Raj Kamal Jha, 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.
‘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 Manasi Subramaniam, Milee Milee Ashwarya, and David Direction générale de l'armement 🇫🇷.
Behind the comfort of an app that can summon a ride anywhere anytime, an untold story of pulling strings, cutting corners. Ritu Sarin, @RTIexpress, Anand Mohan scour #UberFiles . Investigation by The Indian Express with ICIJ, our 8th and counting. indianexpress.com/article/expres…
In the last part of our investigation on NCERT textbooks, we look at the key people involved in drafting the new school curriculum
Sourav Roy Barman found the govt has appointed 24 people with RSS links to the committees working on curriculum changes!
#Thread
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Those we love come with their own surprises. A grandmother’s wisdom, soft-wrapped in memory, is passed on to Menaka Guruswamy indianexpress.com/article/opinio…
🚨 We join class 5 A in their classroom. PART 2 is a week by week snapshot of teacher Neha's work plans, classroom activities, and the children's little successes and problem areas. And a small report card at the end of each week. The Indian Express
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Sukrita Baruah, with her notebook, and Abhinav Saha, with his camera, sit through each of the 28 mathematics lessons of Class 5A as they come back to school after 2 years of pandemic. Fantastic reporting
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Covid locked kids out of their school. When they returned, @SukritaBaruah and Abhinav Saha 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. indianexpress.com/article/india/…
From 1992-2001, the panel have selected books by Michael Ondaatje, Carol Shields, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Rohinton Mistry, Earl Lovelace, Arundhati Roy, Raj Kamal Jha, J.M. Coetzee, Zadie Smith and Yann Martel.
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Set the bar, then keep lowering it to walk over. jay mazoomdaar finds this pattern in environmental clearances to six key projects and explains why. An Express Investigation indianexpress.com/article/expres…
A court verdict used out of context, an SC ruling ignored, a law rushed through, due process given the go by: Apurva Vishwanath investigates how UP officials recover damages in protests against the new citizenship law. An Express Investigation.
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The last time, Shyamlal Yadav and Sandeep Singh 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. indianexpress.com/article/expres…