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‘Push down the Haughty, push up the Humble’
The elevator implosion of Tarun J. Tejpal and the plight of Tehelka as a result have been discussed ad nauseam after the first emails were leaked on 20 November. But …
‘Bangalore, like Gurgaon, a city without identity’
Ira Trivedi, one-time Miss India contestant, Columbia business school grad, yogini, and author, is working on a new, non-fiction book, in which she travels to 15 cities to get the …
Has RSS infiltrated into IT, media in Karnataka?
Tehelka magazine has a cover story on Karnataka this week. With the cover reading “Hindutva Lab 2.0“, the story asks if Karnataka is becoming the new Gujarat, the second laboratory …
India’s greatest match-winning batsman ever is…
For long, the Sunil Gavaskar versus Gundappa Viswanath debate has been firmly sealed, signed and delivered in favour of the latter’s style, selflessness, civility and above all, match-winning prowess. With …
Sauce for Naxal goose ain’t sauce for RSS gander?
As the confessions of “Swami” Aseemanand, outed by Ashesh Khetan of Tehelka magazine, stick the terror label firmly on the tilak-stained foreheads of the Hindu lunatic fringe, calls to ban …
Just vonne one question I’m dying to ask Ranjitha
The single biggest contribution to civilisation of Jaya Jaitley, the socialite companion of the socialist turned saffronist leader George Fernandes, is to not just distrust what we read or hear, …
Bangalore journos named in site allotment scam
It’s raining scams across the country—and the media is increasingly getting caught in the downpour with its pants down. In just the last few weeks, newspapers, magazines and TV stations …
Any resemblance is accidental & unintentional—II
A nice little slanging match has broken out on the letters’ pages of the newsweeklies over banker-turned-writer Sarita Mandanna‘s debut book Tiger Hills and simmering allegations that it draws its …
‘Half of last 16 chief justices have been corrupt’
Judicial corruption is a bull few in India are willing to attach their names to. There are whispers of this or that sitting judge making piles or cash; of sons, …
‘BJP’s lotus grows in muck, so do BJP’s people’
Justice N. Santosh Hegde, the Lok Ayukta of Karnataka who has returned to office kicking and screaming after being persuaded by the “former future prime minister of India“, Shri Lalchand …
With soldiers like Mutalik, God save His Holiness
“Indians have the rare genius to turn everything into an item of trade. Who else has turned God into such profitable commerce? We discovered early that this line of business …
By George, it’s pati, patni aur woh & some crores
Now enacting his final scene under the cruel directorship of M/s Parkinson and Alzheimer, George Fernandes is among the most intriguing actors to have lit up the political theatre. # …
Gandhian activism, fiery journalism & cocktails!
If Medha Patkar was the “box item” girl of the Narmada anti-dam saga, Himanshu Kumar is fast emerging as the poster boy in the Maoism story. No newspaper, magazine or …
‘Arun Shourie: autocratic, time-server, climber’
After exercising the limited IQ of his partymen with his mixed metaphors (kati patang, Alice in Blunderland, Humpty Dumpty, great pygmisation, Tarzan) for a few days, Arun Shourie‘s interview with …
It pays to catch them young to keep the faith?
The latest issue of Tehelka has a superb story on the translocation of tribal children from Meghalaya to Karnataka by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) to indoctrinate them in the …
BJP defeat is a defeat of BJP brand of journalism
PRITAM SENGUPTA in New Delhi and SHARANYA KANVILKAR in Bombay write: The stunning defeat of the BJP in the general elections has been dissected so many times and by so …
How the Congress family defeated Sangh Parivar
Say what you will, but at least Pramod Mahajan had the courage to come out and face the cameras and, with some humility and a smile on his face, try …
Mathew 5:5, Mathew 10:7, Manmohan 2009
In an open letter that is a work of high art “to the unlikely woman whose tenacity in staying the course changed the contours of Indian politics,” Tehelka editor Tarun …
An uber babu who applied the ordained poultices
Tarun J. Tejpal, the editor of Tehelka, assesses Manmohan Singh in an essay of exquisite artistry in the latest issue of the magazine: “What when he looks into the mirror, …
How the BJP govt. hounded Tehelka promoters
First Global, the brokerage promoted by Shankar Sharma and Devina Mehra which had a 14.50 per cent stake in the webzine Tehelka, has scored a major victory with official documents …
‘Our cities are being looted by political parties’
Architect Charles Correa in conversation with Anastasia Guha in Tehelka: “Our cities are being looted by the political parties [using urban real estate as a prime source for finances]. In …
Houston, we have a problem. Is it 36% or 3-6%?
PRITAM SENGUPTA writes from New Delhi: Every Independence Day and Republic Day, a chest-thumping chainmail (subject: “Fwd: Fwd: Fwd: I love my India”) arrives in the in-box of Indians. Garv …
‘Ideas are like mangoes. There are two kinds.’
Like in Kannada cinema, where topnotch literary talents like Jayant Kaikini have given lyrics a good name, Bollywood is wafting on the wings of poets like Prasoon Joshi. The ad …
‘Media is now part of a conspiracy of silence’
The latest sting operation by Tehelka that captured “mass murderers on national television saying how they killed, who they killed and who helped them kill” has resulted in a deafening …
A twist in the tail causes a twist in the tale
“A truly secular witness has switched sides“ E.P. UNNY in The Indian Express