Amol Rajan Parents: Who Are Amol Rajan’s Parents?

Amol Rajan was born in Calcutta, India, to a mother from Poona and a Tamil father from Combaconum.

Amol Rajan’s father, P. Varadarajan, was a general manager at a trading company while his mother was a dinner lady and a nursery teacher. She eventually worked in administration at the Foreign Office.

Amol Rajan was born on July 4, 1983, in Kolkata, India. Amol Rajan was three when his family moved to England and he was raised in Tooting, South West London.

Amol Rajan joined The Independent newspaper in August 2007, where he worked as a news reporter, sports correspondent, columnist, comment editor, and editor of Independent Voices.

Amol Rajan was appointed the BBC’s first Media Editor in November 2016. He has also hosted The Big Debate on the BBC Asian Network.

Amol Rajan’s first book, Twirlymen, the Unlikely History of Cricket’s Greatest Spin Bowlers, was published by Random House in 2011.

In 2013, aged 29, Rajan became the first non-white editor of a national newspaper in over a century when his Independent appointment was announced.