Hartosh Bal, Political Editor of Open magazine, talks to Madhu Trehan about the 'openness' of Open, its contrarian views, on it being a 'crappy upstart taking a swing at the heavyweights', the Radia tapes, and how William Darlymple never bought him that scotch!
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ContributeHartosh Bal, Political Editor of Open magazine, talks to Madhu Trehan about the ‘openness’ of Open, its contrarian views, on it being a ‘crappy upstart taking a swing at the heavyweights’, the Radia tapes, and how William Darlymple never bought him that scotch!
Tony Jesudasan has denied speaking to any reporter on the Radia tapes.
Given below are the series of articles which marked the literary feud between Hartosh Bal and author, William Dalrymple in Open magazine. These are followed by Matt Daniel’s and Sandeep’s analysis of the debate.
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