Amol Rajan years 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. It is frequently offensive, and I cannot say I often agree with its editorial position, but that is all the more reason to read it." In 2013, aged 29, Rajan became the first non-white editor of a
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