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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.

How ThePrint’s reporters and photographers covered Ram temple and Ayodhya—beyond politics

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For 22 January, five journalists of ThePrint were in Ayodhya, several days in advance. If this was the first draft of history in the making, we wanted to be sure we wrote it.
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Manipur clashes coverage was ThePrint’s most important journalism in 2023

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ThePrint’s Manipur coverage defines the website’s journalism: report, report from the ground, report in depth. It does 'stories the public not only wants to read but ought to read’.
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‘Please help me’ — readers write to ThePrint. Their way of expressing confidence in us

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Requests for ThePrint’s intervention sound like cries of despair from frustrated people who see media as their last resort. As a society, have we become hard of hearing?
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Ahilyabai Holkar, Nehru, USSR — ThePrint’s PastForward tells us how we got here

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'We're headbutting over history more and more now–not just in academia but in politics, social media, YouTube, and WhatsApp. It’s like history is on steroids,' says Rama Lakshmi, Editor, PastForward.
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ThePrint’s Delhi team is its heart but state reporters are its arteries—Chennai to Chandigarh

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If a media outlet wishes to be truly national, as ThePrint does, it should have its own network of correspondents in the states who know the smell and the lay of the land.
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Octopus’ mind to Chandrayaan-3 — ThePrint has been making science ‘chic’ for 5 years

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ThePrint reporters have found vegan leather produced from mangoes, profs publishing in fake science journals, and stargazing tourism in the Andamans.
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1984 riots CTC to Manipur crisis reports—ThePrint got more compliments than condemnation

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The most significant change I have noticed in the mails to the Readers’ Editor during the last few months is — there’s much less Hindu-Muslim commentary.
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No internet, high propaganda—ThePrint got you Manipur stories through dictation & SMS

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The difficulty faced by editors and reporters was simple in its complexity — ignorance. How do you convey the intricacies of Manipur's historical Kuki-Meitei enmity that suddenly turned violent?
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Meet ThePrint journalists who don’t use words. Their art speaks—charts, graphs, illustrations

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These graphics artists at ThePrint illustrate stories; but their work also conveys mood and shades of meaning, a text or a photograph can’t always quite grasp.
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ThePrint Ground Reports go beyond breaking news, tell stories that are being buried

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From Punjab’s unemployable youth and Kalakshetra students’ fight against sexual harassment to Gujarat’s child nuns from Jain community, Ground Reports give you a 360-degree perspective.
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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

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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

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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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