Amol Rajan is the editor of The Independent newspaper. Rajan's appointment to the post was announced on 17 June 2013. Born in Calcutta, India, his family moved to London when he was aged 3, and Rajan was raised in Tooting, South London. State school educated at Graveney School, then a comprehensive, he read English at Downing College, Cambridge, and contributed to Varsity. He was Editor of the student newspaper for a term in 2005. Rajan was the secondary presenter on The Wright Stuff, the daytime talk show on the Five network, during its 2006-7 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. 

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