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 - August 30, 2025

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

Expert voices in public spaces—what ThePrint Speakers Bureau offers

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

Ahilyabai Holkar, Nehru, USSR — ThePrint’s PastForward tells us how we got here

Shailaja Bajpai - October 31, 2023

'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.

ThePrint’s Delhi team is its heart but state reporters are its arteries—Chennai to Chandigarh

Shailaja Bajpai - September 30, 2023

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.

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.

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Readers' Editor

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

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

Expert voices in public spaces—what ThePrint Speakers Bureau offers

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

On Camera

YourTurn

Guidelines for YourTurn submissions

Opinion

The Bads of Bollywood finally gives us the sidekick that everyone needs

India can’t go one-on-one with Morocco. Move beyond bilateral deals in Africa or get left out

US, China bully India in global market. Delhi must get its own instruments of leverage

Economy

Market regulator SEBI clears Adani Group of impropriety alleged by Hindenburg Research

Defence

With MiG-21’s exit, India’s squadron strength hits 6-decade low. What are IAF’s plans for the Tejas

National Interest

India doesn’t give walkovers to Pakistan in war. Here’s why it shouldn’t do it in cricket either

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