Word: tehelka
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...commandos in the northeast Indian state of Manipur on July 23, the news created only a minor stir. One more death was hardly startling in an insurgency-ridden state where abductions, torture, extortion and killings by the police are routinely documented by human-rights activists. A week later, however, Tehelka, a prominent national weekly, published a series of photos of the events surrounding the supposed shoot-out. Chungkam Sanjit, a former militant, is shown standing unarmed, putting up no resistance as the commandos push him into a shop. Moments later, he is dragged out by his feet, dead, and dumped...
...position he sticks to today. Whatever the truth, the carnage that followed was terrible. In 2004, following an investigation into the incident, India's Supreme Court ruled that the chief minister was "a modern Nero who watched while Gujarat burned." A recent report by investigative magazine Tehelka went further, blaming the violence directly on senior BJP politicians and sympathetic police officers. One BJP politician, unaware that he was being recorded by a Tehelka reporter, allegedly said that Modi had told him that he and his colleagues had three days "to do whatever we wanted." Modi has dismissed the conclusions...
...That was then. In fact, of late, hidden cameras have become quite the thing in Indian journalism. Tehelka, an Internet news site that later became a newspaper, pioneered subterfuge when it launched in May 2000, using secret cameras to expose corruption in cricket and the armed forces. Since then, grainy videos have become a staple tool of Indian investigative reporting. But until recently, editors have been careful to back the use of electronic trickery with a claim to be acting in the public interest. Founded 10 months ago, India TV dispensed with such piety, filming politicians, holy...
...thrashed." Bollywood producer Pritish Nandy fears conservative critics will use the scandal to attack both journalism and entertainment. "Did you know Lady Chatterley's Lover is still banned in India? This only gives a leg up to the crazy prudes who think that's a good idea." Tehelka boss Tarun Tejpal knows how aggressive journalism can boomerang. After publishing a report on alleged corruption in arms sales under the previous government, his main investor was jailed, advertisers were warned off, and staff so tied up in court cases that Tehelka?which means "sensation" in Hindi?collapsed. Back at the helm...
...both secularity and Islam. May God replace hatred with love in pitiful hearts. Nimet A. Kocak Istanbul India's Corruption Question In your story "teflon government" [Dec. 1], you list a supposed series of corruption scandals involving the Indian government?"the Judeo tape," "the costly coffins case," "the Tehelka scandal"?and attribute the list to "TIME Research." But it is more than apparent that you have only talked to vested political interests and the perpetrators of fraudulent sting journalism. Fluffing up political allegations and gossip does not make for journalism of international standards. In the case of the Judeo tape...