Chidanand rajghatta biography of donald

Chidanand (“Chidu”) Rajghatta is currently the Foreign Editor and U.S Bureau Chief of The Times of India. In an expansive career now in its 37rd year, Chidu Rajghatta has often written the first draft of history from the geo-political frontiers of India, the United States, and their engagement with the world.

Chidu Rajghatta was born in Bangalore, India, where he also grew up, studied, and began his journalistic career with the Indian Express in After stints with Sunday magazine and The Telegraph of Kolkata, he worked at India Today before he became Editor of The Sunday Times of India in Delhi. He was the Resident Editor of The Indian Express in Mumbai when he was sent to Washington DC in , a two-year posting that has now turned out to be a year stay that has made him one of the longest serving foreign correspondents in Washington DC.

Rajghatta is the author of The Horse That Flew: How India’s Silicon Gurus Spread their Wings (Harper Collins ) and Illiberal India: Gauri Lankesh and the Age of Unreason (Amazon Westland ).

They’ve chronicled the U.S. presidential election for months (years? eons?), criss-crossing the country and filing dispatches with headlines like “Why it takes only a broken taillight for America to erupt,” “Giant meteor or Trump vs Clinton? It’s a hard call for some US voters,” and “Donald Trump’s exploitation of Orlando benefits ISIS.” Now they’re preparing to cover one of America’s signature political spectacles: the nominating convention. And they’re uniquely positioned to provide some of the sharpest and most original analysis of the race.

Ahead of the Republican and Democratic conventions, I spoke with four foreign correspondents about how they’re making sense of the election and explaining the campaign to their audience. The Lebanese journalist Joyce Karam, who has covered U.S. politics since and serves as the Washington bureau chief for the pan-Arab newspaper Al-Hayat, expressed concern about her safety—even about openly speaking Arabic—at the GOP convention in Cleveland, given Trump’s rhetoric about Muslims. The German journalist Matthias Kolb, who’s covering his second U.S. presidential contest for the Süddeutsche Zeitung’s website, argued that America isn’t as divided as it seems. Like most of the r

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