scorecardresearch
Add as a preferred source on Google
Saturday, January 3, 2026
HomeOpinionReaders' Editor

Readers' Editor

Shailaja Bajpai is ThePrint's Readers' Editor
Shailaja Bajpai is ThePrint’s Readers’ Editor

The Readers’ Editor is an initiative by The Print to be accessible and responsive to its readers. Each month, Shailaja Bajpai, as Readers’ Editor, highlights readers’ views on ThePrint’s content and writes about issues that confront journalism in a dense and highly contested media environment.

ThePrint at 8. Readers are evangelists, critics, and asserting their ‘right’

Shailaja Bajpai -
We welcome criticism and accept it in the spirit it is made: to help us improve ThePrint.
Read more

‘More careful than colourful’—ThePrint’s reporting on the Air India crash put facts first

Shailaja Bajpai -
The common thread in ThePrint's reporting—from the ground and Delhi—is the effort to stick to verified facts and clearly attributed views. Anything else could be misleading.
Read more

Expert voices in public spaces—what ThePrint Speakers Bureau offers

Shailaja Bajpai -
ThePrint Speakers Bureau offers an opportunity to engage with experts from diverse fields, like RSS intellectual Seshadri Chari, TMC MP Sagarika Ghose, and historian Anirudh Kanisetti.
Read more

Pahalgam, Pakistan generals, pitches—what readers wrote to us in May

Shailaja Bajpai -
Quite often, I receive backhanded compliments that are actually complaints.
Read more

How ThePrint’s small newsroom brought you Pahalgam from every angle, minus the noise

Shailaja Bajpai -
We had to deploy our resources intelligently to tell readers what had happened in the attack, what happened thereafter, and what may happen in the near future.
Read more

You can now own a piece of ThePrint. Great speeches tote bags to Cut the Clutter hoodies

Shailaja Bajpai -
Five tote bags with quotes from BR Ambedkar, Sardar Patel, Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi and Atal Bihari Vajpayee are on offer. 'People can choose what resonates with them'.
Read more

Inside ThePrint’s mailbox—readers bring us praise, critique, and everything in between

Shailaja Bajpai -
One minute, I am being questioned about the “Razakars and their oppressive rule”. Next, a reader demands an app for the website. Another reader from Thailand wants to contribute articles to ThePrint.
Read more

ThePrint’s in-depth ground reports are now multimedia-interactive. 2025 vision board

Shailaja Bajpai -
In the last 18 months, ThePrint has continued to track events in Manipur by sending reporters and photojournalists. This is how things have changed on the ground.
Read more

There is hunger for ThePrint’s brand of journalism—Why we went live in Marathi, Tamil

Shailaja Bajpai -
You may well ask, what prompted ThePrint to offer its content in Indian languages? Because it’s the logical next step in our relationship with the reader.
Read more

ThePrint opinion articles get a flood of readers feedback. Remember, ‘views are personal’

Shailaja Bajpai -
ThePrint readers want to write. Here's a tip—subscribers articles are published in 'Your Turn' section
Read more
1 2 3 4 5 6 Page 1 of 6

On Camera

YourTurn

Opinion

Indian bureaucracy should be given incentives and rewards: MH Mody

MH Mody -
Is there a place for a counter-bureaucracy, or a separate and competing bureaucracy to counterbalance the force of the executive’s bureaucracy, asked author MH Mody in 1980.

The Supreme Court is losing its credibility. It should frighten us all—Maneka Gandhi

India’s most consequential decade & chronicling it as part of the dream team of journalism

Economy

India’s urban co-op banks are turning the page—crisis to cautious revival, one metric at a time

+TFP Udit Bubna -
With bad loans shrinking & capital buffers stronger, urban co-op banks’ new umbrella body NUCFDC is now prioritising rollout of digital transformation.

Defence

Greece looking at TATA’s WhAP infantry combat vehicle for army procurement

Snehesh Alex Philip -
If deal goes through, Greece will be 2nd foreign country to procure vehicle. Morocco was first; TATA Group has set up manufacturing unit there with minimum 30 percent indigenous content.

National Interest

A year-end Mea Culpa in National Interest—The Army-Islam combo doesn’t kill democracy

Shekhar Gupta -
Many of you might think I got something so wrong in National Interest pieces written this year. I might disagree! But some deserve a Mea Culpa. I’d deal with the most recent this week.

Follow us

Copyright © 2025 Printline Media Pvt. Ltd. All rights reserved.