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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.

Meet ThePrint’s new reporters — a lawyer, an ex-KPMG manager & an edtech founder

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Udit Hinduja, Udit Bubna, and Ruchi Bhattar show how ThePrint School of Journalism gives people from diverse backgrounds a path into the newsroom.
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ThePrint is widening its lens. New shows on AI, economy, bureaucracy—and fresh newsletters

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The latest additions to ThePrint’s properties will improve your understanding of the India we live in, whether it's through the prism of AI or civil services.
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ThePrint at 8. Readers are evangelists, critics, and asserting their ‘right’

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We welcome criticism and accept it in the spirit it is made: to help us improve ThePrint.
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‘More careful than colourful’—ThePrint’s reporting on the Air India crash put facts first

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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.
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Expert voices in public spaces—what ThePrint Speakers Bureau offers

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

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Quite often, I receive backhanded compliments that are actually complaints.
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How ThePrint’s small newsroom brought you Pahalgam from every angle, minus the noise

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

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

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

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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.
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Opinion

North Indians need a crash course from Malayalis. Civic sense can be taught

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One can feel the difference the moment the train enters Kerala—cleaner railway platforms, more hygienic food stalls, orderly passengers, no stench, and, of course, fresh air.

This isn’t an energy crisis— at least not yet

Exploiting Iran’s ethnic fault lines can solve one problem for US-Israel—and create several more

Economy

Maharashtra Budget: Fadnavis hands farmers another loan waiver even as 6 lakh await benefits of 1st one

Purva Chitnis -
Other key promises in the budget include AI- and other technology-enabled services for farmers and continuation of the Ladki Bahin Yojana, which will have the same outlay. 

Defence

Iranian naval ship Lavan with crew of 184 docked in Kochi same day US torpedoed IRIS Dena

Keshav Padmanabhan -
IRIS Lavan was in the region for the International Fleet Review held last month and ‘sought urgent docking in Kochi citing technical issues,’ it is learnt.

National Interest

Trump brings the Age of Humiliation for friends. Modi needs stoicism abroad, humility at home

Shekhar Gupta -
Trump has ushered in the age of humiliation. His method is to push around America’s friends rudely and publicly. He knows none of them can afford to fight back.

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