Christopher Raja
Christopher Raja was born in Calcutta. He is the author of a memoir, Into the Suburbs: A Migrants Story (UQP, 2020), a play The First Garden (Currency Press, 2012), and a novel, The Burning Elephant (Giramondo, 2015). Christopher has been twice shortlisted for the Northern Territory Chief Ministers Book of the Year award. He was the 2021 UTS Copyright Agency New Writers Fellow, and his memoir was Highly Commended in the National Biography Award 2021. https://www.christopherraja.com/
Recent articles by Christopher Raja
9 May 2024
The 1984 anti-Sikh genocide
It’s almost 40 years since Indira Gandhi was assassinated by her own Sikh bodyguards. A year earlier she’d ordered the Indian army to storm Sikhism’s holiest site, the Golden Temple in Amritsar, after extremist separatist Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale had taken refuge there.