Amol Rajan

Amol Rajan is an adviser to Evgeny Lebedev, owner of the Independent titles and London Evening Standard. He was previously Deputy Comment Editor at The Independent, and before that Sports News Correspondent and a news reporter at the paper. He is a regular essayist and television critic for The Independent, a book reviewer and bi-weekly restaurant critic for The Independent on Sunday, and his column in i appears on Tuesdays and Thursdays. He is a contributor to The Literary Review and The Salisbury Review, read English at Downing College, Cambridge, spent his gap year at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and for two years was mic boy on Channel 5's The Wright Stuff. He is a trustee of Prospex, a charity for young people in Islington, and his first book, Twirlymen: the Unlikely History of Cricket's Greatest Spin Bowlers, was released by Yellow Jersey Press on May 5.