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.

Expert voices in public spaces—what ThePrint Speakers Bureau offers

Shailaja Bajpai - June 30, 2025

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

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

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

Octopus’ mind to Chandrayaan-3 — ThePrint has been making science ‘chic’ for 5 years

Shailaja Bajpai - August 31, 2023

ThePrint reporters have found vegan leather produced from mangoes, profs publishing in fake science journals, and stargazing tourism in the Andamans.

1984 riots CTC to Manipur crisis reports—ThePrint got more compliments than condemnation

Shailaja Bajpai - July 31, 2023

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.

No internet, high propaganda—ThePrint got you Manipur stories through dictation & SMS

Shailaja Bajpai - June 30, 2023

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?

Meet ThePrint journalists who don’t use words. Their art speaks—charts, graphs, illustrations

Shailaja Bajpai - May 30, 2023

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.

ThePrint Ground Reports go beyond breaking news, tell stories that are being buried

Shailaja Bajpai - April 30, 2023

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.

Critical analysis by ThePrint readers always welcome, but we won’t send a spy to Pakistan

Shailaja Bajpai - March 31, 2023

Scold us to your heart’s content, berate us, eat us for breakfast — but do stay in touch.

Lights, camera, storytelling—how ThePrint photojournalists tell news and win awards

Shailaja Bajpai - February 28, 2023

There are three reasons why photojournalism still matters in the age of selfie shooters and smartphones.

Podcasts, video analysis, on-ground clips—ThePrint is ready for the age of ‘viewer-reader’

Shailaja Bajpai - January 31, 2023

'Gen-Z would rather watch or listen, that’s the reality,' observes ThePrint. Recognition of this shift to audio-visuals is why the team is ramping up its video section.

Here’s what readers of ThePrint said to us in 2022—and what we are offering in 2023

+TFP Shailaja Bajpai - December 31, 2022

I receive frequent emails accusing ThePrint of 'anti-Hindu bias' or urging us to write more about 'the Nazi politics of Hindutva'. Sometimes, readers generously concede and correct themselves.

How ThePrint courageously covered the Covid battleground and won the IPI award

Shailaja Bajpai - November 30, 2022

Everyone who went to the field admitted that though the experience was harrowing, they had become better journalists, perhaps even better people because of it.

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Readers' Editor

Expert voices in public spaces—what ThePrint Speakers Bureau offers

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

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

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

On Camera

YourTurn

Guidelines for YourTurn submissions

Opinion

Muslims never held Akbar in high regard. Hindus made him ‘Great’

Bihar voter list revision is not anti-democratic—India can’t let illegals influence polls

A year after Bangladesh’s Monsoon Revolution, a parched summer looms ahead

Economy

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Defence

DRDO successfully tests latest version of UAV-launched precision missile, ULPGM-V3

National Interest

Modi’s Bharat vs Indira’s India: 11-yr report card of politics, diplomacy, economy, nationalism

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