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Naina Bajekal
Bajekal is Executive Editor and International Editor for TIME.
Recent Articles
How We Chose the 2023 Women of the Year
This year's list features 12 leaders who are working to build a more equal world
By Naina Bajekal and Lucy Feldman
March 2, 2023
Fighting for a Future Free of Nuclear Weapons
Beatrice Fihn, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2017, on why she's optimistic about the prospect of nuclear disarmament
By Naina Bajekal
January 4, 2023
Inside the Growing Movement to Do More Good
Effective altruists believe we should care about people thousands of miles away—and perhaps even millions of years in the future.
By Naina Bajekal/Oxford, U.K.
August 10, 2022
Inside the Mind of Ursula von der Leyen
President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen is determined to lead the E.U. through yet another crisis.
By Naina Bajekal/Davos, Switzerland
June 9, 2022
Exclusive: Chancellor Olaf Scholz on a New Era for Germany
After decades of embracing pacifism to atone for two world wars, Germany now stands to emerge as a true global power—with a military to match
By Lisa Abend and Naina Bajekal/Berlin
April 27, 2022
How We Chose the 2022 Women of the Year
The list highlights 12 extraordinary leaders working for a more equal world
By Naina Bajekal and Lucy Feldman
March 3, 2022
Journalists Reflect on Covering Stories About Their Communities
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...
By Jasmine Aguilera , Jenna Caldwell , Josiah Bates , Nadia Suleman , Naina Bajekal , Paulina Cachero , Sanya Mansoor and Suyin Haynes
May 13, 2021
How India’s COVID-19 Crisis Spiraled Out of Control
The country is now facing the world’s worst COVID-19 outbreak, and a devastating humanitarian crisis
By Naina Bajekal
April 28, 2021
Women Are Transforming What Climate Leadership Looks Like
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...
By Naina Bajekal and Elijah Wolfson
April 20, 2021
A Reading List to Celebrate Asian Authors
See a curated reading list from members of TIME's Asian community that celebrates Asian authors
By Naina Bajekal , Paulina Cachero , Andrew R. Chow , Suyin Haynes , Cady Lang and Karena Phan
March 24, 2021
A Defiant New Take on Contemporary India
“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...
By Naina Bajekal
May 20, 2020
'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 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...
By Naina Bajekal
January 16, 2020
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 of human living." It was this deep interest in the lives and stories of the black community that led Hurston, who grew up...
By Naina Bajekal
January 16, 2020
She Was Misdiagnosed With Bipolar Disorder. Now She's Probing the Gaps in Our Understanding of Mental Illness
"If sanity and insanity exist, how shall we know them?" So begins a landmark 1973 study by Stanford psychology professor David Rosenhan, who persuaded eight healthy people to feign hallucinations and commit themselves to mental...
By Naina Bajekal
November 7, 2019
India Is Starting to Lift Kashmir Restrictions. What Happens Next?
Over two months since the repeal of Kashmir's special status, citizens are bracing themselves for what's next
By Naina Bajekal
October 23, 2019
A Newly Translated Novel Charts the Dizzying Transformation of an Independent Oman
"When we are away from home, in new and strange places, we get to know ourselves better," Abdallah, the son of a rich merchant, thinks as he gazes out an airplane window. It's a sentiment...
By Naina Bajekal
October 10, 2019
A New Novel Sees Beyond the Abstraction of Today's Refugee Stories
After two summers volunteering in a refugee center in Athens as thousands of families flooded into Greece, Christy Lefteri found herself wondering what it means to see, and be seen. From the question sprang her...
By Naina Bajekal
August 22, 2019
India Has Taken Kashmir, But Winning the Hearts and Minds of Kashmiris Will be Harder
On the sunny, cloudless morning when Imaad Tariq was born in Kashmir, most of his family had no idea. "Nobody knows that my wife delivered a baby boy," says Tariq Ahmad Sheikh, at the hospital...
By Naina Bajekal
August 8, 2019
An Intimate Portrait of Life in Sierra Leone
Dignity, celebration, respect, joy. These were just some of the feelings photographer Robbie Lawrence wanted to capture in his work from Sierra Leone — a departure from the emotions we might traditionally associate with photography...
By Naina Bajekal
June 10, 2019
The Other Americans
Asks What It Means to Be an Immigrant in 2019
When Laila Lalami's 2014 novel The Moor's Account was short-listed for a Pulitzer Prize, jurors called its tale of a 16th century Spanish expedition to Florida "compassionately imagined out of the gaps and silences of...
By Naina Bajekal
March 14, 2019
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