BIKASH CHOUDHURY
God has also feet of clay? The god of investigative
journalism in India, Tarun Tejpal, once a victim of coercive Govt. has now turned
a full circle to become an accused in a case of sexual assault and rape
allegedly with one of his own female colleague at a Hotel in Panjim, Goa on 7th
of this month; the woman journalist is all of 23 yrs, daughter of an
ex-colleague and best friend of his own daughter. All this happened at the
venue of an International Literary event “Think 2013” organized by Tehelka;
which remain a much admired in literary and Intellectual community for its
content and the discourse. Sexual excesses on a colleague by non-other than the
founder and the leader of the organization was anti-climax enough ; the
subsequent cover up bid by the violator
and his accomplice, Managing Editor of Tehelka, Shoma Choudhury was against the
grain of the kind of journalism they have so far so vociferously profess while practice
exactly the opposite. Whatever, Tarun Tejpal has done is disgraceful enough and
quite unforgivable knowing him as an Author of repute and the toil and
tribulation taken to start the kind of Magazine the Tehelka has come to become from scratch. The role of its Managing
Editor in the whole affair has remained much to be desired as she was found to
be extremely defensive; though she has all along been looked upon as a staunch
and articulate votary of issues pertaining to “Atrocities on Women”. This is
just like Elephant having one tooth to show off and another for internal
consumption. Tutoring millions of tele-audience about fare and fearless
journalism is one thing; but, practicing the same on one’s own self/ organization
is quite another. Apparently, she would argue “no surgeon has ever operated on
one’s own body. The moral of the story is Mr.Tarun Tejpal, Ms.Shoma Choudhury
have disappointed millions people in India who consider them as their role
model. The law of the land would take its course with both of them in course of
time; but, the verdict of people’s court is all ready out in open. May be,
another Tehelka like media would take birth to do justice to the prevalent hypocrisy
on ‘atrocities with women’ inside the great and grand portals of Media in
India.
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