If you ain’t a Left-libber, you ain’t human
Poet and secularist par excellence Javed Akhtar was hauled over the coals by Twitterati for his comment on former Tehelka editor-in-chief Tarun Tejpal which was seen as supporting the beleaguered editor. But what has escaped the notice of the mainstream and social media is much more insidious. In a debate at Times Now, he tried to distinguish two More...
Legal Opinion: Can Tejpal seek transfer of investigation?
Tarun Tejpal’s latest ploy of blaming the BJP for implicating him in the rape case is now the news doing the rounds. That Tejpal, on that ground, has sought the transfer of the investigation from the Goa police More...
Kapil Sibal Claims he does not own stake in Tehelka
Assertion: In the wake of sexual molestation charges against Tehelka founder and editor-in-chief, Tarun Tejpal, Union Law Minister Kapil Sibal issued the following statement: I don’t have any stake in Tehelka…When More...
AAP Slanders Narendra Modi
It is a given that the pre-poll pitch is raised to a fever by all contestants as the date gets nearer and nearer. And so it is with the Delhi, which goes to the polls on 4 December 2014. Hitherto, Delhi has witnessed More...
Congress Loses its Marbles
The sight of a sombre Manish Tiwari denouncing Narendra Modi in hushed tones of angst, for suggesting the ailing imported empress abdicate in favour of her befuddled son, illustrated poignantly the ignominy to which More...
The Masked Ball of the Secularist Stormtroopers
Nemesis is a strange phenomenon. It is a silent companion for the mighty and the wicked, as they carry on their criminal capers for decades and some. Then, suddenly, it strikes. Like the bolt from the blue, or the More...
Secular Hypocrisy: From Shah Bano to Tarun Tejpal
While proclaiming to uphold liberal values like women’s rights, secular intellectuals and the Congress become tongue-tied and even collaborators when unspeakable outrages are committed against women by those considered More...
Sexual Assault in Indian Media: A Victim Speaks Out
IndiaFacts columnist, Dr. Shobha Srivastava in her analysis of the Tarun Tejpal sexual assault episode, mentioned similar cases of harassment of women in the Indian media. One of these was the tragic case of a More...
Sanctimony, Hubris and Downfall
Tehelka magazine editor-in-chief Tarun Tejpal and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) boss Arvind Kejriwal were the self-appointed guardians of morality. In the reckoning of their supporters, they were the conscience of the More...
Centre’s Involvement in Tejpal Case: Legal Opinion
The disgraced founder and chief editor of Tehelka, Tarun Tejpal who has voluntarily stepped down in the wake of his sexual assault against his own female staffer in Goa is still the headlines, after about 5 days More...