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Rajiv Chandrasekaran

May 2015

  • Zadie Smith.

    Books blog
    The Guardian first book award: 16 years of talent-spotting

    As nominations for 2015 open, it’s a good time to remember that the prize isn’t just the sum of its winners but of all the shortlisted stars of the future

July 2012

  • A soldier of the Afghanistan National Army checks a villager during a patrol in Helmand Province

    Little America: The War Within the War for Afghanistan by Rajiv Chandrasekaran – review

    This account of America's decade-long adventure in Afghanistan makes for essential reading, writes Jason Burke

  • US marines on patrol near the town of Khan Neshin in Helmand, 2009

    Afghanistan: how the US army battled it out with the British

    In this extract from his latest book, Little America, Rajiv Chandrasekaran exposes the ways in which the supposed allies were at loggerheads when it came to strategy in Afghanistan
  • British Major-General Nick Carter and US Brigadier General Larry Nicholson, 2009

    Afghanistan: the war within a war

    Rajiv Chandrasekaran's new book, Little America, shows how infighting between the US and British military has wrought disaster in Afghanistan

November 2007

  • First look: Rajiv Chandrasekaran

    Introducing the second of the shortlisted books, Rajiv Chandrasekaran answers questions on the writing of Imperial Life in the Emerald City

  • Books blog
    Podcast: Imperial Life in the Emerald City

    Rajiv Chandrasekaran talks about his darkly funny first hand account of America’s messy attempts to reconstruct Iraq.

  • The Guardian Books podcast
    Guardian First Book Award: Rajiv Chandrasekaran

    Rajiv Chandrasekaran on Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone

September 2007

  • Versailles on the Tigris

    Unlike almost anywhere else in Baghdad, you could dine at the cafeteria in the Republican Palace for six months and never eat hummus, flatbread, or a lamb kebab.

June 2007

  • My week
    My week: Rajiv Chandrasekaran

  • Partition may be the only solution

  • Guardian Daily
    Newsdesk: 22.06.2007

  • Guardian Daily
    Newsdesk Extra: What next for Iraq?

  • Books blog
    Podcast: Imperial Life in the Emerald City

  • The Guardian Books podcast
    Interview with Rajiv Chandrasekaran

  • Guardian Daily
    Newsdesk: 20.06.2007

  • The Guardian Books podcast
    Rajiv Chandrasekaran, winner of the 2007 Samuel Johnson prize talks about Imperial Life in the Emerald City

  • Award for account of life inside Iraq's Green Zone

  • Futile, fraudulent or worse

October 2004

  • Barbed realities in Iraq

    In July 2003, when travel around Iraq didn't require armoured cars and armed guards, my translator and I took a day trip to Falluja. Unrest was on the rise there and we were curious about who was behind the violence.Was it indeed former members of Saddam Hussein's Ba'ath party? We wanted to get some truth on the ground. Even if the reporting foray was a failure, we planned to stuff ourselves at Haji Hussein, our favourite kebab restaurant.
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