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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

West Asia conflict bolsters Asim Munir’s grip on Pakistan’s power structure

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The few anti-Army civilians in Pakistan, who once saw red with the institution over its treatment of Imran Khan, have now reached a consensus — Asim Munir has made Pakistan a global player.

Farmers’ agitations started in developed states like Coimbatore & Ludhiana: Sharad Joshi

What happens after the tomato snatches the cauliflower’s husband. The world wants to know

Economy

Indian govt says will borrow Rs 8.2 trillion in first-half of next fiscal year

Pratigya Vajpayee -
The administration trimmed its gross borrowing program to 16.09 trillion rupees from 17.2 trillion rupees announced in the budget on Feb. 1.

Defence

India greenlights procurement of 5 more S-400 air defence systems from Russia

Snehesh Alex Philip -
In FY 2025-26, AoN for 55 proposals amounting to Rs 6.73 lakh cr has been accorded by DAC. Both the quantum of AoN given and capital contracts signed, so far, have been the highest in any FY.

National Interest

Gulf war exposed India’s fragilities. It’s time for navel-gazing, in the national interest

Shekhar Gupta -
It’s easy to understand why the government can’t speak the hard truth. When this war ends, as all wars do, India’s interests will lie with both the winner and the loser.

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