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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.

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

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

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ThePrint readers want to write. Here's a tip—subscribers articles are published in 'Your Turn' section
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The first batch of ThePrint’s J-school has graduated—what students want in the next

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Senior journalists at ThePrint taught the students the fundamental principles of good journalism, interspersed with anecdotes and examples from their professional lives.
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Opinion

My grandmother saved her children in Bhopal gas tragedy—and sacrificed her own life

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‘Mother kept pouring water in our eyes whenever the burning became unbearable. She pushed our bodies deep into the blanket, making sure not a single part was exposed,’ my father said.

1989 Rubaiya Sayeed kidnapping case still haunts Indian policy-making in Kashmir

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Indian bureaucracy doesn’t need DOGE. Hiring more would be better for efficiency

Economy

India’s Russian oil imports are showing up in cryptic new places. The crude map stands redrawn

Udit Bubna -
December oil imports from Russia may drop nearly 50%, but Indian buyers already shifting to non-designated Russian entities and opaque trading channels to keep Russian oil flowing.

Defence

India to commission new squadron of submarine-hunting Romeo choppers in Goa later this month

Keshav Padmanabhan -
The helicopters produced by Lockheed Martin are known as ‘submarine hunters’. India ordered 24 of these aircraft in 2020 to replace the Sea King helicopters. 15 have been delivered till date.

National Interest

Gaali cricket: Bavuma stands tall, India’s Test ego cut to size

Shekhar Gupta -
The India-South Africa series-defining fact is the catastrophic decline of Indian red ball cricket where a visiting team can mock us with the 'grovel' word.

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