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Tarun Tejpal - The Thin Red Line
I WAS AMONG several who saw him die. His name was Surjit Singh Penta, and the year was 1988.

November 22, 2021

Tarun Tejpal - Indians on the Booker List: Sunjeev Sahota may have missed by a whisker, but these five winners didn’t
Fun fact: Arundhati Roy’s Booker winning magnum opus was published by Tarun Tejpal. Read on for less-known details of India’s literary winners

October 8, 2021

Tarun Tejpal - Remembering the Original Chocolate Boy Of Bollywood in His Birthday Month – Rishi Kapoor
"The Kapoor khandaan is like the Apple iPhone. The same product, just slimmer in every generation," said Ranbir Kapoor in an interview to Tarun Tejpal

October 1, 2021

Tarun Tejpal - Rejection. Reinvention. Resilience. Amitabh Bachchan’s storied life has it all
In an in-depth interview to tarun tejpal a few years ago, the actor reckoned with failure as much as success

September 30, 2021

Why conviction of Tejpal would have been a travesty of justice for him and not justice to the “prosecutrix”
This is a long read. And a detailed one. It tries to go beyond the headlines, selective information, misinformation and various agendas to examine

September 27, 2021

Tarun Tejpal - Public Interest Journalism: Another Side of Media
The words journalism and media seems to suggest one thing, one entity, one type of public role in the world but nothing could be further from the truth. The bulk of the world’s media platforms end up being platforms of record.

September 9, 2021

Tarun J Tejpal – Death of a salesman and other elite ironies
Tarun J Tejpal – Rohinton Maloo was shot doing two things he enjoyed immensely

August 28, 2021

“A whole generation of writers learned how to write from V S Naipaul,” says Tarun J Tejpal
It may seem like a particularly nothing month of the year — summer is on its way out but the glories of fall are nowhere yet in sight — but there is one landscape on which August glows like a firefly.

August 19, 2021

Tarun Tejpal - No Mimic Man, this: the incredible life of VS Naipaul
“Life is a helluva thing. You can see trouble coming and you can’t do a damn thing to prevent it coming. You just gotta sit and watch and wait.” From Miguel Street, by VS Naipaul

August 18, 2021

Tarun Tejpal - 20 Years Of Operation West End – Has Anything Changed?
Tarun Tejpal - It seems like both public and mass media's memory limits itself to the worlds of sport and cinema.

August 15, 2021

Tarun Tejpal - Most Heart-breaking Power Couple Divorces and split-ups
Tarun Tejpal - One thing 2021 seems intent on doing: showing that ordinary folk aren't the only ones succumbing to the pressures of the pandemic year gone by.

August 10, 2021

TARUN TEJPAL - Mrs Gandhi And Her Extra God
Tarun Tejpal - DEAR MRS SONIA GANDHI, We all know the cliché that India moves on faith. We love our gods, and it is at their feet that we place all our successes and failures.

August 7, 2021

TARUN TEJPAL - The Shadow Warrior
Tarun Tejpal - THIS WOULD be an interesting question.

August 5, 2021

TARUN TEJPAL - Look Back In Anger
Tarun Tejpal - ON A BALMY evening at the end of September 2001 I was in the hall of a luxurious hotel in south Mumbai attending a media awards ceremony.

August 5, 2021

Tarun J Tejpal - The Missionary Position
Tarun J Tejpal - We all love sentimental trash, especially if it can masquerade as something artistic and meaningful. Often it needn't even do that — in an act of self-affirmation we invest it with these virtues.

August 3, 2021

Tarun J Tejpal - Dilip Kumar’s Death: A legend lost by Indian Cinema
Tarun J Tejpal - He might well be the single most defining actor in Indian cinema — and now he’s gone.

July 27, 2021

Tarun Tejpal - Season-2! Most Awaited Sequels of Hit Web Series
Tarun Tejpal - 2020 might well come to be known as the year the movies died — but it might also come to mark the moment web series well and truly became a juggernaut that will not be stemmed.

July 27, 2021

Tarun J Tejpal - 20 Years of Lagaan: A Film Worth Remembering
Tarun J Tejpal - Aamir Khan starrer film Lagaan has completed 20 years of its release on 15th June 2021. Lagaan was a remarkable movie in the history of Indian cinema.

July 27, 2021

TARUN TEJPAL’S POLITICAL PERSECUTION THAT HAS BEEN A FINANCIAL NIGHTMARE FOR GOA’S TAXPAYERS
Tarun Tejpal - Courts of Law are a forum to Prosecute and never to Persecute. The Goa Government should come clean making public the total expenditure incurred so far on the Tarun Tejpal Case which has been on for almost eight years.

July 23, 2021

TARUN J TEJPAL - WHEN THE BJP DID NOT HAVE ITS WAY IN THE TARUN TEJPAL CASE
Tarun J Tejpal - With Justice N. V. Ramana having taken over as Chief Justice of India there is a ray of hope with the Judiciary now reasserting itself.

July 23, 2021

Tarun Tejpal is a very renowned Indian Journalist, publisher, novelist, and former editor-in-chief of Tehelka magazine.
Tarun J Tejpal is a very renowned Indian Journalist, publisher, novelist, and former

July 2, 2021