Rajiv Chandrasekaran is an American journalist. He is a senior correspondent and associate editor at ''

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'', where he has worked since 1994.

Life

He grew up mostly in the

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. He attended

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, where he became editor-in-chief of '' The Stanford Daily'' and earned a degree in political science. At ''The Post,'' he has served as bureau chief in

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, and

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, and as a correspondent covering the war in

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. During 2003, the ''Post'' put his stories on the front page 138 times. In 2004, he was journalist-in-residence at the

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School of Advanced International Studies, and a public policy scholar at the

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. Chandrasekaran's 2006 book '' Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone'' won the 2007

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and was a finalist for the 2006

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for non-fiction. The film ''

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'' (2010) is "credited as having been 'inspired by'" the book.

References

Bibliography

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)

External links

Official page
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C-SPAN ''Q&A'' interview with Chandrasekaran on ''Imperial Life in the Emerald City'', September 24, 2006
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