Tarun Tejpal
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Tejpal at la Fureur de lire 2007, Geneva, Switzerland
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Tarun Tejpal 15 March 1963 Jalandhar, Punjab, India |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Known for | Founder of Tehelka |
| Criminal charge | Sexual assault |
| Criminal status | On Bail |
Tarun Tejpal (born 15 March 1963) is an Indian journalist, publisher, novelist and former editor-in-chief of Tehelka magazine. In November 2013, he stepped down as editor for six months after a female colleague accused him of sexual assault. He was arrested on 30 November 2013 and is currently on bail.
Tejpal's father was in the Indian Army and because of this, he grew up in many parts of country. He graduated in economics from Panjab University in Chandigarh. Tejpal met Geetan Batra in 1984 while in college and married her in 1985; they have two daughters, Tiya and Cara.
He began his career in 1980s, with the The Indian Express and he moved to New Delhi to join a now defunct magazine called India 2000. In 1984, he joined India Today magazine, then The Financial Express in 1994 and later helped found the rival publication, Outlook, where he worked for several years. Meanwhile he founded a publishing company, India Ink, which published Arundhati Roy's Booker Prize winning novel The God of Small Things in 1998.
He left Outlook in March 2000, to start tehelka.com, an online independent news and views magazine which soon came to be known for its sting investigations, mainly for Operation West End. The website was relaunched as a national weekly newspaper, Tehelka in January 2007, it became a weekly magazine.
In 2010, He was presented with Award for Excellence in Journalism by the International Press Institute's India Chapter Award In 2001 Business Week named him as amongst the 50 leaders at the forefront of change in Asia, later in 2009, the magazine named him amongst, "India's 50 Most Powerful People 2009".The Guardian included him in its list of "India's elite" for being a "Pioneer of a brand of sting journalism which has transformed Indian media" in 2006.
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