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Rajni George

Rajni George is founding editor and editor-in-chief of The Kodai Chronicle. She has worked at Penguin Random House, Granta and The Caravan. Her work has been published in The New Internationalist, The New York Times, and Mint Lounge. She works remotely in climate change adaptation, and lives between Bangkok and St Mary's Road.

Issue 9 Editorial: Letter to the Readers of The Kodai Chronicle

by Rajni George
January 21, 2023January 21, 2023

Dear Reader, When I first returned to my hometown in the mountains more than two years ago,…

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Editorial: A Little Goes a Long Way

by Rajni George
November 26, 2022January 21, 2023

Often, when I am home in Kodai, feeling stuck at work, I step away from my laptop…

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Editorial: Letter to the Readers of The Kodai Chronicle

by Rajni George
August 31, 2022November 26, 2022

Dear Readers,

I grew up near a shola forest and spent much of my time hiding away in…

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Water touches every one of our senses (Photo: Neha Sumitran)

Editorial: Letter to the Readers of The Kodai Chronicle

by Rajni George
July 2, 2022August 2, 2022

Dear Readers, This month, we report from the middle of a wet summer. It has been an…

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Local's Guide to Kodaikanal cover

Letter to the Readers, May 2022

by Rajni George
May 1, 2022May 23, 2022

Here is the first real edition of The Kodai Chronicle, in print! We have spent the last…

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Mildred and Richard Keithahn

Rock of Vision: Richard Keithahn, Kodai’s American satyagrahi

by Rajni George
June 5, 2022June 4, 2022

Ramachandra Guha on RR Keithahn, the American freedom fighter and social reformer who held summer retreats in…

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Molecular ecologist turned photographer Prasenjeet Yadav (Photo: Ian Lockwood)

The Big Picture: Photographer Prasenjeet Yadav on the Role of Science in Storytelling, the Western Ghats, Kodai Bison, and Much More

by Rajni George
April 3, 2022May 23, 2022

A veteran photographer and explorer, this former molecular ecologist left the lab to experience the story he…

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Amitav Ghosh

Parables for Us All: Amitav Ghosh on the Importance of Big Stories from Small Towns

by Rajni George
December 18, 2021May 23, 2022

An interview with this renowned writer reminds us that the small stories make up the big battles…

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Editorial: Letter to the Readers of The Kodai Chronicle, October 2021

by Rajni George
October 30, 2021May 23, 2022

Dear Readers, Two months to go till the end of the year, and things feel quite different…

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Bittu Sahgal

‘Kodai [Can] Bounce Back in Five Years’: Interview with the Legendary Warden of Sanctuary, Bittu Sahgal

by Rajni George
September 17, 2021May 23, 2022

An interview with one of India’s foremost conservationists, Bittu Sahgal, Editor of Sanctuary Asia and founder of…

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