TARUN TEJPAL PROFESSIONAL GRAPH

[46NDA 55REG 39TECH 50463] Professional Graph Of Tarun Tejpal M Bala Nov 28 at 10:22 PMTo, On Thursday, 28 November 2013 9:41 PM, r s yadav wrote: India Today -28 Nov 13 Tarun Tejpal dropped out of college, though his official autobiography says that he is an economics graduate of Punjab University Chandigarh. In 1983, he got a job at the copydesk of The Indian Express, Chandigarh. In the mid-80s Tejpal relocated to Delhi where, after a short stint at a publication named India 2000, he joined the copy desk of India Today in 1988. He quickly rose to become the magazine's literary editor and even gained a reputation, at one time, of being Sir VS Naipaul's favourite literary editor. Tejpal left India Today in 1994 to join Prabhu Chawla, the former Indian Express editor, who had taken charge of the Financial Express. Tejpal joined as the features head. Though many wondered why he had left a leading news magazine to join a smaller newspaper Tejpal transformed FE's features section. It was during this time that he met Anirudha Bahal, the reporter with whom he would uncover several scams. Tarun Tejpal In 1995, when Chawla left the Financial Express to become the editor of India Today, Tejpal left to become the managing editor of Outlook which was launched by the Rahejas with Vinod Mehta as editor. Though Mehta has always described him as an excellent deputy, he's said to have left Outlook in 2000 in unhappy circumstances. While in Outlook, Tejpal, along with his brother Minty Tejpal, an ex-employee of the video newsmagazine Newstrack, produced and anchored literary shows for DD3, the shortlived Doordarshan channel. In 1997 he teamed up with photographer Sanjiv Saith to launch the publishing house India Ink. India Ink published Arundhati Roy's Man Booker Prize-winning debut novel, The God of Small Things. It was after The God of Small Things that Tejpal finally had enough money to become the web entrepreneur-editor that he often talked to colleagues about. In 2000, he left Outlook and started Tehelka along with Anirudha Bahal as an investigative news website. Tehelka first made a splash with a sting operation on former Test cricketer Manoj Prabhakar that exposed the betting racket in the game. Tehelka gained international acclaim with Operation Westend, the sting operation conducted in 2001 that exposed corruption and sleaze in the defence deals struck in Delhi. The most high profile victim of the sting was the then BJP president Bangaru Laxman who was caught on camera taking a bribe from Tehelka reporters posing as arms dealers. Tehelka.com was relaunched as a weekly newspaper in 2004 and in 2007 it was converted into a weekly news magazine. In 2008, Trinamool Congress MP and industrialist Kanwar Deep 'KD' Singh had invested heavily in Tehelka's holding company. With Singh's investment the group planned to launch an economic daily called Financial World in 2010. Dummy runs had started and the magazine had hired several people only for Singh to pull out of the venture 6 months later, citing a lack of funds. At the time that the rape scandal broke, Tejpal was in the process of setting up Prufrock, an 'elite intellectual club for select Indians'. He was also nominated to be a part of the Prasar Bharati Board though his nomination was withdrawn soon after the scandal