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Raj Kamal Jha
Born
1966 (age 57–58)
Occupation
Editor, journalist, novelist
Language
English
Notable works
The Blue Bedspread
If You Are Afraid of Heights
Fireproof
She Will Build Him a City
The City and the Sea
The Patient in Bed Number 12
Notable awards
Commonwealth Writers' Prize
International Press Institute Award
Tata Literature Live! Best Book
Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize
IAA Editor of the Year
Mumbai Red Ink Journalist of the Year
IIT Kharagpur Distinguished Alumnus Award
Raj Kamal Jha (born 1966) is an Indian newspaper editor and novelist writing in English. He currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief of The Indian Express. He has written six novels that have been translated into more than 12 languages. His journalism and fiction have won national and international awards, including the Commonwealth Writers Prize; Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize; Tata Literature Live! Book of The Year; the International Press Institute India Award for Excellence in Journalism; and the Mumbai Press Club Journalist of the Year award. In September 2021, Jha was awarded Editor of The Year by the India Chapter of the International Advertising Association Annual Leadership Awards.[1]
He is the cousin of former Congress leader Sanjay Jha.[2]
^"IAA honours for Express Chief Editor Raj Kamal Jha, Amul MD R S Sodhi". 25 September 2021.
^"Strongly recommend my brilliant cousin Rajkamal Jha's ( Managing Editor of Indian Express) book FIREPROOF published a few years ago . Class!"
RajKamalJha (born 1966) is an Indian newspaper editor and novelist writing in English. He currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief of The Indian Express...
regional languages, Bihar has also produced writers in English such as RajKamalJha, Amitava Kumar, Tabish Khair, Gunjesh Bond, Abhay K, Kumar Vikram, Siddhartha...
Indian Express Group Publisher Indian Express Group Editor-in-chief RajKamalJha Founded 1932; 92 years ago (1932) Political alignment Centre-left Language...
uses dance, music and drama to highlight various world social issues. RajKamalJha was announced the winner of the Tagore Literary Prize for his novel...
Retrieved 1 December 2017. Soofi, Mayank Austen (10 January 2015). "RajKamalJha: 'We journalists are not the stories'". livemint.com/. Retrieved 1 December...
journalists by a professional body. Sagar Vinod Dua Faye D’Souza Mark Tully RajKamalJha Ravish Kumar Prannoy Roy [citation needed] TN Ninnan[citation needed]...
for Cultural Harmony". 26 October 2018. Retrieved 21 December 2018. "RajKamalJha wins Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize 2020 for The City and the Sea"...
Productions in the late 1940s. Tarachand Barjatya had three sons, Kamal Kumar Barjatya, Raj Kumar Barjatya, and Ajit Kumar Barjatya, all of whom were active...
October 2011. "Kamal's advise to Surya". southdreamz.com. 2010. Archived from the original on 9 October 2011. Subhash K Jha (2003). "Maddy on Kamal". Rediff...
(13 November 2001). "Kamal falls... hard!". Rediff.com. Archived from the original on 31 January 2017. Retrieved 31 January 2017. Jha, Subhash K. "Fear becomes...
producer. Rabindra Kumar Rana – Politician, Member of the 14th Lok Sabha. RajKamalJha – Chief Editor, The Indian Express; author and novelist Ramjee Singh...
2015. Retrieved 30 October 2014. Jha, Subhash K. (24 December 2022). "Birthday Special: When Anil Kapoor wanted to be Kamal Haasan". Firstpost. Archived from...
artist, director and writer. 5 December – Dayanidhi Maran, politician. RajKamalJha, novelist and journalist. September – Faisal Khan, actor. 11 January...
Jagdish Raj Khurana (1928 – 28 July 2013) was a Bollywood actor who holds a Guinness World Record for being the most type-cast actor. He played the role...
"Inside View: Boy Wonder". The Indian Express. Indian Express Limited, RajKamalJha. 22 June 2017. Retrieved 15 August 2021. "Bondi Band". El Mundo. Unidad...
Prize 2020 - Times of India". The Times of India. 9 December 2020. "RajKamalJha wins Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize 2020 for the City and the Sea"...
The Bardhaman Raj (Bengali: বর্ধমান রাজ, Bengali pronunciation: [Bôrdhoman Raj]), also known as Burdwan Raj, was a zamindari Raja estate that flourished...
page 240 Encyclopaedia of Hinduism. Nagendra Kumar Singh, p. 3239. Dr. Kamal Kant Jha, Pt. Sri Ganeshrai Vidyabhushan, Dr Dhanakar Thakur. "A Brief History...
Neel Mukherjee, The Lives of Others (Vintage/Penguin Random House, UK) RajKamalJha, She Will Build Him A City (Bloomsbury, India) 2017 Anuk Arudpragasam...
in a Red-Rose Chain Canada Thistledown Press Europe and South Asia RajKamalJha The Blue Bedspread India Picador South East Asia and South Pacific Kapka...
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