Where did Amol Rajan grow up? What did Amol Rajan study?

Amol Rajan was raised in Tooting, South West London. Amol Rajan was educated at Graveney School and later read English at Downing College, Cambridge.

Amol Rajan was born on July 4, 1983, in Kolkata, India to a mother from Poona and a Tamil father from Combaconum. Amol Rajan was three when his family moved to England.

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 has written a Monday column for the London Evening Standard and restaurant criticism for The Independent on Sunday.

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.

Amol Rajan narrated the BBC podcast Harry, Meghan and the Media, which was released in January 2022.

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