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