A Taste for Trouble
Author | : Aniruddha Bahal |
Publisher | : Context |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2021 |
ISBN-10 | : 938964822X |
ISBN-13 | : 9789389648225 |
Rating | : 4/5 (2X Downloads) |
Book excerpt: Aniruddha Bahal has spelt trouble for the Establishment for as long as he can even remember. As a boy of barely fifteen, he ran away from home, all the way from Allahabad to Bombay--returning a week later, chastened and penniless, but with valuable lessons learnt. As a journalist, he transformed the definition and boundaries of reporting with the risks he took and the stories he chased down. And he paid the price for it. As a writer, his first novel won him international recognition-- as well as the Bad Sex in Fiction Award, handed to him by no less a personage than Sting. As an entrepreneur, he went against the grain in setting up an investigative news portal at a time when speaking truth to power was no longer on the agenda of media houses.