‘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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
“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 …
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. # …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 truly secular witness has switched sides“ E.P. UNNY in The Indian Express