About Rahul Rahul was born and brought up in England, moving to Singapore with his family in 1985 when his father began lecturing at NTU. After studying as a day student at UWCSEA from 1985 to 1991, he returned to London for a degree in economics at LSE. Rahul began his career in media, working for a local newspaper in Russia, for Bloomberg News in London and then as a press officer for the government. After returning to LSE for his Master’s degree, he switched career to management consultancy, first working for the Monitor Company and then KPMG. In the meantime, he also had time to start a family and now has two daughters. A few years ago, the family moved to Amsterdam, where his wife is originally from, giving Rahul time to focus on some business ventures and also return to his first love, journalism. He has been working as a producer at DokoFilms, which is based in East London. After the recent riots in the UK, the team at Doko felt the entire story hadn’t been told and decided to work with the local community to develop a documentary that would provide a platform to help people discuss the riots and learn from the past. The inspiration for the approach, which keeps the community involved throughout the film-making process with a focus on crowd funding, comes from many of the social movements that have come to prominence in the past decade.
Bottom left and right: Rahul with former classmates at recent reunion events
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In his spare time, Rahul volunteers as the trustee of Re-Cycle, a charity that sends second-hand bicycles to Africa, and has also from time to time provided support to friends that run charities working with young people in inner city areas in London. He still stays in touch with old friends from UWCSEA, attending reunions in Amsterdam, London and, last year, in Singapore.