Monisha Rajesh

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 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. 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. "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. "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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