Aniruddha Bahal, the man behind the Tehelka defence expose talks about sting operations, bearing the brunt of legal cases, the weird ways of state persecution... the ills of news media today and reasons for hoping better days .
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ContributeFrom literary impulses as a novelist to investigative adventurism as an undercover journalist, Aniruddha Bahal has covered quite a distance. The man behind the Tehelka defence expose talks about sting operations, bearing the brunt of legal cases, the weird ways of state persecution, the ills of news media today and reasons for hoping better days .
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