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Monisha Rajesh is a British journalist and travel writer.

Early life

Rajesh was born in Norfolk, England, the child of two Indian doctors.[1] The family moved from Sheffield to Madras, India, in 1991. After two years, "fed up with soap eating [sic] rats, stolen human hearts and [the] creepy colonel across the road, we returned to England with a bitter taste in our mouths",[2] and she made only occasional visits to India over the next twenty years: "little more than the occasional family wedding had succeeded in tempting me back".[3]: xiii  She attended "King Edward VI High School for Girls" in Edgbaston, the University of Leeds, and has a postgraduate diploma in magazine journalism[citation needed] from the Department of Journalism, City University.[4]

Career

Rajesh has worked for The Week and written for The Guardian, The Times, The New York Times and TIME.[4]

In 2010, she embarked on a four-month journey around India by train, using 80 train journeys to reach the furthest points of the Indian rail network, described in her 2012 book Around India in 80 trains.[5][2][6]

She subsequently travelled around the world in another 80 train journeys, writing Around the World in 80 trains.[7] [1]

Selected publications

  • Rajesh, Monisha (2012). Around India in 80 trains. Nicholas Brealey. ISBN 978-1-85788-595-8.
  • Rajesh, Monisha (2019). Around the World in 80 trains. Bloomsbury. ISBN 978-1408869758.

References

  1. ^ a b Kerr, Michael (30 January 2019). "Around the World in 80 Trains by Monisha Rajesh, review: a triumphant ode to long distance train travel". The Telegraph. Retrieved 13 March 2019.
  2. ^ a b "Go trotting around India in 80 trains, says book by Monisha Rajesh". The Hindu Business Line. 11 October 2012. Retrieved 13 March 2019.
  3. ^ Rajesh, Monisha (2012). Around India in 80 trains. Nicholas Brealy. ISBN 978-1-85788-595-8.
  4. ^ a b "Monisha Rajesh". Hodder & Stoughton. Retrieved 13 March 2019.
  5. ^ Duff, Andrew (7 December 2012). "Around India in 80 Trains by Monisha Rajesh: review". The Telegraph. Retrieved 13 March 2019.
  6. ^ Walia, Nora. "Around India in 80 Trains (interview)". Times of India. Retrieved 13 March 2019.
  7. ^ Smith, P. D. (26 January 2019). "Around the World in 80 Trains by Monisha Rajesh review – the romance of rail travel". The Guardian. Retrieved 13 March 2019.

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