Tarun Tejpal is sitting amid the ruins of his office. There is not - TopicsExpress



          

Tarun Tejpal is sitting amid the ruins of his office. There is not much left - a few dusty chairs, three computers and a forlorn air-conditioning unit. We have sold virtually everything. Ive even flogged the airconditioner, he says dolefully. Twenty months ago Tejpal, editor in chief of tehelka, an investigative website, was the most feted journalist in India. He had just broken one of the biggest stories in the countrys history - an exposÀ of corruption at the highest levels of government. His reporters, posing as arms salesmen, had bribed their way into the home of the defence minister, George Fernandes, and handed over £3,000 to one of the ministers colleagues. The journalists found many other people prepared to take money - senior army officers, bureaucrats, even the president of the ruling Bharatiya Janata party, who was filmed shovelling the cash into his desk.
Posted on: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 15:01:21 +0000

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