(IN RESPONSE TO THE COVER STORY IN THE INDIA TODAY)
Apropos your cover story “The Fall”. Tarun Tehelka (read
Tejpal) has moved a long way from being a wordsmith of your edit desk to your
cover page. If it was Kalidasa who cut the tree he was standing on; Tejpal
seems to have done the opposite (cutting his own feet). He made one cardinal
mistake of not voluntarily giving himself to the law of the land owning full
responsibility of his disgraceful act after editing the final cover story on
himself in his own magazine “Tehelka”. Thus, he could have saved the ‘cult’ he
so assiduously created, his reputation and his magazine “tehelka”. That would
have made him a demi God with Global fan following with his new novel “alchemy
of sex”. It is bad and very sad that he was carrying just a chicken heart.
Bikash Choudhury
Bhubaneswar
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