Naina Bajekal

Bajekal is an executive editor at TIME.

‘I Didn’t Have the Privilege of Escaping.’ 8 TIME Journalists Reflect on a Year of Covering Stories About Their Communities

Longstanding journalistic maxims would have a reporter remain disengaged wh...

Longstanding journalistic maxims would have a reporter remain disengaged while gathering the facts. But pursuing the whole truth means considering the humanity of one’s subjects—and of oneself. Lived experience can help a reporter empathize and...

Relatives carry the body of a loved one at a crematorium in New Delhi on April 27, as India endures the world's worst COVID-19 outbreak.

India's COVID-19 Crisis Is Spiraling Out of Control. It Didn't Have to Be This Way

The country is now facing the world’s worst COVID-19 outbreak, and a devast...

The country is now facing the world’s worst COVID-19 outbreak, and a devastating humanitarian crisis

Women hold a banner that reads “Feminists against climate change” at a 2019 protest in Madrid.

These Women Are Transforming What Climate Leadership Looks Like. Here's What They Learned From the Pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic, like the climate crisis, is amplifying existing raci...

The COVID-19 pandemic, like the climate crisis, is amplifying existing racial and gender injustices in our society. TIME editors Naina Bajekal and Elijah Wolfson moderated a conversation with two women working to create a more...

A Reading List to Celebrate Asian Authors, From Members of TIME's Asian Community

See a curated reading list from members of TIME's Asian community that cele...

See a curated reading list from members of TIME's Asian community that celebrates Asian authors

A Defiant New Take on Contemporary India

“Writers and politicians are natural rivals,” Salman Rushdie wrote in his 1...

“Writers and politicians are natural rivals,” Salman Rushdie wrote in his 1982 essay “Imaginary Homelands.” “Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory. And the novel...

In Netflix’s Sex Education, Anderson plays a quirky single mom and sex therapist

'Brits Are Notoriously Prudish.' On Set With the Cast of Netflix's Sex Education

Squeals and laughter ring out across the set of Sex Education. It's Gillian...

Squeals and laughter ring out across the set of Sex Education. It's Gillian Anderson's last day of filming for Season 2, and Ncuti Gatwa--who plays the show's ebullient teen Eric Effiong--has just discovered Anderson has...

Hitting a Straight Lick With a Crooked Stick includes eight “lost” tales by Hurston

Zora Neale Hurston's Short Stories Finally Get Their Due in a New Posthumous Collection

"Folklore," Zora Neale Hurston wrote in an essay, "is the boiled-down juice...

"Folklore," Zora Neale Hurston wrote in an essay, "is the boiled-down juice of human living." It was this deep interest in the lives and stories of the black community that led Hurston, who grew up...