Background
Rajan was born in Calcutta, India. He was three when his family moved to England, and he was raised in Tooting, south London.
Rajan was born in Calcutta, India. He was three when his family moved to England, and he was raised in Tooting, south London.
Downing College.
Rajan"s appointment to the post was announced on 17 June 2013. When The Independent"s future was announced as being an online only operation in February 2016, Rajan was retained as "editor-at-large". He was state school educated at Graveney School, then a comprehensive, and read English at Downing College, Cambridge, where he contributed to Varsity.
He was Editor of the student newspaper for a term in 2005.
At the age of 18, Rajan worked in the United Kingdom Foreign and Commonwealth Office (Foreign and Commonwealth Office) for one year during his gap year. Rajan was the secondary presenter on The Wright Stuff, the daytime talk show on the Five network, during its 2006-2007 season.
He was also a researcher on the programme. He joined the The Independent newspaper in August 2007 where he has been a news reporter, sports correspondent, columnist, comment editor and editor of Independent Voices.
He has also written a Monday column for the London Evening Standard, restaurant criticism for The Independent on Sunday and has contributed to The Salisbury Review.
The latter publication, according to Rajan, "still publishes writing on politics, history and culture that is among the finest produced in English today. lieutenant is frequently offensive and I cannot say I often agree with its editorial position, but that is all the more reason to read lieutenant"
Rajan became the first non-white editor of a national newspaper when his Independent appointment was announced, although that claim has also been made on behalf of Rachel Beer. His predecessor as editor of the Independent, Chris Blackhurst, became Group Content Director.
When The Independent proprietor Evgeny Lebedev announced a move to digital only in February 2016, with the imminent closure of the print edition, it emerged that Rajan is remaining with the company to help facilitate the change in direction.
His first book, Twirlymen, the Unlikely History of Cricket"s Greatest Spin Bowlers, a history of spin-bowlers in cricket, was published by Random House in 2011. Rajan is a cricket enthusiast and plays for the Authors XI cricket team