Prism Me a Lie Tell Me A Truth: Tehelka as Metaphor
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Prism Me a Lie Tell Me A Truth: Tehelka as Metaphor

  1. 588 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Prism Me a Lie Tell Me A Truth: Tehelka as Metaphor

About this book

In March 2001, the website Tehelka broke Operation West End, the biggest undercover news story in Indian journalism. Using spycams and masquerading as arms dealers, Tehelka's reporters infiltrated the Indian government, bribed army officers, gave money to the president of the ruling party and the defence minister's close colleague right in the defence minister's residence. This eventually forced both the ministers'resignations. In a rigorously researched and searing authentic account of the Tehelka expose and its aftermath, Madhu Trehan does a forensic study of the imperatives at the root of it, the characters and heroes and villains of the story, and of how the system got back: by obfuscating, by attempting to destroy the investors without leaving any footprints. In the style of Rashomon, the story is related by numerous participants of the same incidents and, of course, none of the stories tally. With exhaustive personal interviews, this is a must-read for anybody who wants to understand modern India - or even better, modern international journalism.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Gratitude
  6. Introduction
  7. Characters
  8. Trail Map of Operation West End
  9. 1. Grate Expectations The Breaking Story
  10. 2. Kick-Ass Journalism Is Born
  11. 3. The Catcher On The Fly
  12. 4. The Death Of A Salesman The Birth Of A Journalist
  13. 5. Who Is Tarun Tejpal? ‘I’M A Mad Punjabi’
  14. 6. God Of Small Flings
  15. 7. Why Do Men Do What They Do?
  16. 8. The Errors Of Comedy
  17. 9. Of Greedy Bondage
  18. 10. A Greased Passage to India
  19. 11. Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Secretaries
  20. 12. Thus Spake R.K. Jain
  21. 13. The Sureka Also Rises
  22. 14. The Feminine Mstake
  23. 15. Who’S Afraid Of Shaggy (Woolf)?
  24. 16. The Minister’S Last Sigh
  25. 17. Tropic Of Cancerous Corruption
  26. 18. The Scarless Letter
  27. 19. Enforcement Inferno
  28. 20. Why The Caged Reporter Doesn’T Sing
  29. 21. Oops, Sorry, Sorry, Sorry
  30. 22. Spin The Dog: Doctoring?
  31. 23. The Omission Of Inquiry
  32. 24. Not So Fine A Balance: Ethics And Journalism
  33. 25. Ubiquitous Presence Of Malice
  34. 26. Conspiracy Curry
  35. 27. The Aftermath: Shattering Heights
  36. 28. The Unbearable Lightness Of Conscience
  37. Index