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Rahel Philipose
Rahel Philipose is a Senior Sub Editor at the indianexpress.com news desk. She curates the Express' morning newsletter, The Daily Briefing. She also covers world news for the Explained section. Rahel graduated from Lady Shri Ram College for Women in New Delhi and the Asian College of Journalism in Chennai. She has previously worked at Inshorts, a Noida-based news aggregator app.
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