Amol Rajan Amol Rajan Amol Rajan (born 4 July 1983) is the BBC's Media Editor, having taken up the role in December 2016. Rajan was formerly editor of "The Independent" newspaper from June 2013. When "The Independent" announced it was dropping the print edition in February 2016, and continuing as only an online operation, Rajan was retained for a period as "editor-at-large". Rajan was born in Calcutta, India; he was three when his family moved to England, and he was raised in Tooting, south London. The son of Hindu parents, he has not believed in any god since the age of 15.
Amol Rajan 12 December. From May 2017, he has presented "The Media Show" on BBC Radio 4 in succession to Steve Hewlett. Since 2017, Rajan has provided holiday cover for several presenters on BBC Radio 2, including Simon Mayo and Jeremy Vine. He has guest presented several episodes of "The One Show". Rajan is a cricket enthusiast, and plays for the Authors XI cricket team. His first book, "Twirlymen, the Unlikely History of Cricket's Greatest Spin Bowlers", was published by Random House in 2011. He married Charlotte Faircloth, an academic, in Cambridge in September 2013. Amol Rajan Amol Rajan (born 4 July