Amol Rajan
Amol Rajan was appointed editor of The Independent in June 2013. He was previously Editor of Independent Voices, a comment, campaigns and community platform across print and digital. He was earlier Deputy Comment Editor, Sports News Correspondent and news reporter. He writes a restaurant column for the Independent on Sunday, and has a column in the Evening Standard (Mondays), Independent and i (Fridays). He used to work on Channel 5's The Wright Stuff, and at the Foreign Office; and is a trustee of Prospex, a charity for young people in Islington. He also wrote a book called Twirlymen: the Unlikely History of Cricket's Greatest Spin Bowlers.
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Restaurant review: Sunday, 169 Hemingford Road, London, N1
04 August 2013 12:00 AM
Amol Rajan finds near-perfection at a brunch-and-dinner establishment in Islington
Otto's, 182 Gray's Inn Road, London WC1
21 July 2013 12:00 AM
Good things come to he who waits. He, in this case, being the most singular waiter one could hope to meet, says Amol Rajan.
Brasserie Chavot, 41 Conduit Street, London W1
07 July 2013 12:00 AM
Amol Rajan finds bad upholstery undermines good food at Eric Chavot's newest spot
The Shed, 122 Palace Gardens Terrace, London
23 June 2013 12:00 AM
Amol Rajan finds brotherly love at a new family-run restaurant in west London
Rajan's Wrong Un': How I and the finest bunch of amateur rascals brought a joyous sport to book
09 June 2013 11:44 PM
No sport lends itself to the prose stylist and the lyrical poet quite like cricket
Send fewer kids to university, not ever more
06 June 2013 05:57 PM
Top universities are failing in their mission to recruit more students from disadvantaged backgrounds. But is that really - really - such a bad thing?
Rajan's Wrong 'un: The fight against corruption in the IPL is a battle for the very soul of India
03 June 2013 12:00 AM
The structure of the IPL is a denial of the rights of equal citizenship
Master & Servant, 8-9 Hoxton Square, London
02 June 2013 12:00 AM
Amol Rajan goes nose-to-tail in the heart of Hoxton
Rajan's Wrong 'un: Only fans can save cricket's future from being mired in the IPL cesspit
26 May 2013 10:55 PM
Whenever vast sums of money flood into a sport, corruption is a risk
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Is the Muslim call to prayer really such a menace?
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Channel 4 to 'provoke' viewers who associate Islam with terrorism with live call to prayer during Ramadan
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US army doctor returns arm to Vietnamese soldier fifty years after he took it as a souvenir
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Police seize possessions of rough sleepers in crackdown on homelessness
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Demand for food banks has nothing to do with benefits squeeze, says Work minister Lord Freud
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