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	Tehelka - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 2001, a sting operation launched by Tehelka journalists Aniruddha Bahal and Mathew Samuel produced a video that showed several members of the Indian government including the then ruling party BJP's president Bangaru Laxman accepting bribes to approve defence contracts.
		http://tehelka.com/story_main.asp?filename=te013004our.asp Story of the birth, death and re-birth of 'Tehelka'.
		Tehelka, though it covers everything from books to news, operates from a strong moral centre.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tehelka (160 words)

	Tehelka trials
		The CBI has been trying to establish that "Pankaj" is in fact a staffer of Tehelka, named Kumar Badal, and that he had paid for the filming of the skinning of leopards.
		Tehelka has made it clear from the beginning that we are not interested in exposing private life and that we are only interested in exposing public abuse of office."
		On June 5, the Delhi High Court had rejected Jaitly's petition seeking an examination of the tehelka tapes by forsenic experts and a direction to the Venkataswami Commission not to cross-examine her before the three correspondents of the portal were cross-examined.
	www.flonnet.com /fl1914/19141200.htm (1590 words)

	The end of innocence
		Tehelka named and identified locals on tape, people openly acknowledging that they know of the sexual-abuse of children, and even openly – and at least a couple almost casually – using terms like “Bomkis” (the Konkani slang for “sodomiser”) to identify paedophiles in their area.
		Tehelka captured on tape the attitude of Goa’s officials, whether it was the police or senior tourism officials.
		Tehelka is not the first publication to come out strongly over Goa’s uneasy relationship (and tolerance, as some see it) of paedophilia.
	www.humanscape.org /Humanscape/2004/Oct/theendof.php (3997 words)

	The Hindu : Opinion / Leader Page Articles : The Tehelka Commission
		Tehelka was run into the ground operationally and financially.
		There have been huge debates on whether the Tehelka style `stings' are ethical — in terms of invasion of privacy, the breach of normal methods, the use of women as part of the sting and the unorthodox interviews.
		The Tehelka episode is a nail in the coffin of the reputation of commissions as effective tools of governance.
	www.hindu.com /2004/10/15/stories/2004101500821000.htm (1341 words)

	TEHELKA DOT COM(EDY) EPISODE - A TRAGEDY OF ERRORS
		Tehelka episode that has rocked India since the afternoon of Tuesday, 13th March, 2001 is a mix of both comedy and tragedy.
		This lends credence to the claims of BJP that Congress is backing the tehelka endeavour and it is a frame-up intended to discredit their Government.
		BJP could have used tehelka episode as a challenge to emerge stronger and expose tehelka dot com as a comedy, just as tehelka was shown to be in the match fixing case where the prime accuser Manoj Prabhakar was found to be guilty and the accused Kapil Dev was declared innocent.
	www.samarthbharat.com /tehelka.htm (1466 words)

	Tehelka.com expose: Does Ethics matter in Modern Journalism? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Tehelka did a very good job of duping some of the small fry in the arms business, and a few greedy civilian and army officers associated with arms purchases.
		Tehelka established that many of their 'victims' took money, thereby going one step farther than Matt Drudge, the maverick American Journalist who set the trend of Web-journalism based mostly on sensational rumours.
		Tehelka's stated purpose- `to expose corruption', has bolstered their image as a smart team of modern day "investigative" journalists.
	education.vsnl.com /journalist/tehelka.html (1375 words)

	agencyfaqs! > news & features > Tehelka print-run crosses 1 lakh copies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		According to a Tehelka release, out of the print-run of one lakh copies, around 17,000 are advance paid subscribers with one to 10 years' subscription.
		Tehelka, to be true to its mandate as a “people’s paper” and to ensure its editorial independence, has funded the paper almost entirely through the subscriptions of concerned citizens.
		Tehelka, of late, is also attempting to reach out to Indians through the music route.
	www.agencyfaqs.com /news/stories/2005/04/20/11258.html (529 words)

	rediff.com: Tehelka expose: Armymen bribed with prostitutes
		The revelation of the use of flesh to 'bribe' defence officials has come at the time when the the Parliament is on and government is under flak because of the UTI crisis, the violence in Kashmir and the economic slowdown.
		In November, Tehelka's reporters returned to the hotel with a third officer and a prostitute.
		Tehelka journalists claimed that they had provided these unedited tapes to army's court of inquiry.
	www.rediff.com /news/2001/aug/22teh.htm (603 words)

	OJR article: Tehelka.com: Government Counters with Smear Campaign
		The scattered ruling party is now making a concerted effort to undermine Tehelka?s investigation with a smear campaign against the dot-com, though accusations range from the hilarious to the outrageous.
		The disgust is so strong that people in general have chosen to overlook the blatantly unconventional and arguably unlawful method of investigation that Tehelka employed to expose the sleaze that transpires in the corridors of power.
		Tehelka was launched with the cricket expos?, but the site almost vanished when the story cooled off.
	www.ojr.org /ojr/ethics/1017961287.php (1508 words)

	The Hindu : National : Tejpal wants cases against Tehelka withdrawn
		Addressing a press conference here, the Tehelka Editor-in-Chief, Tarun J. Tejpal, saidthat Tehelka and First Global, which had been victimised by the Establishment and had been forced to shut down their offices should be offered compensationby the Government for the financial, professional and emotional losses over the past three-and-a-half years.
		Tehelka demands that the Government should now investigate and penalise all Government servants and bearers of public office who have committed perjury in the Commission of Inquiry and seriously compromised themselves by lying on sworn affidavits,'' he said.
		Surely, Tehelka and the values it stands for - blowing the whistle on wrongdoing and corruption - are as important for the health of democracy,'' he said.
	www.hindu.com /2004/06/16/stories/2004061606011100.htm (437 words)

	We, at Tehelka, will carry on our sting operations: Tarun Tejpal : HindustanTimes.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Tarun_Tejpal: I think Tehelka brought the issue of corruption in governance centre-stage again and that is really the need of the hour because we all know very scarce and valuable resource of the country are being constantly siphened off and misused.
		But it was Tehelka that gave those tapes to the army court of inquiry and the Venkatswami commission of enquiry.
		Tehelka is not interested in the private lives of anybody.
	www.hindustantimes.com /news/181_360595,0020.htm (3796 words)

	MediaChannel.org - OP-ED \| Tehelka.com
		Tehelka has dramatically, if unintentionally, shown the financial and intellectual impoverishment of the Indian media.
		I am being urged to applaud the Tehelka enterprise as "glamorous and thrilling" because, eventually, it pushed a government to the brink of political survival.
		"The Tehelka team has been criticized for conning their prey into believing that they were arms dealers and for filming the meetings on the sly," said Mr.
	www.mediachannel.org /views/oped/indiatech.shtml (1623 words)

	Telugu cinema Editorial - The Tehelka Effect
		As a small team, Tehelka's reporters could coordinate closely on all aspects of the story.
		Tehelka's scoop was assisted by TV networks, which jumped on the story and made tehelka.com a household name in urban and rural areas alike.
		Tehelka's story made the citizens of India to glue to the TV news channels and closely follow the latest developments.
	www.idlebrain.com /edit/edit2.html (542 words)

	[Goanet]TEHELKA -- Action at last (follow-up) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		He also argued that since Tehelka could list only a few tourism-related paedophilia cases in its five-month-long investigation, it was proved that the issue was not grave in the state.
		By the end of this year, the Tehelka film, The Nexus of Silence, will be screened in 50 parishes in coastal Goa and then will move on to the other parishes.
		Another instance of a community movement as a result of the Tehelka expose is the screening of the film across colleges in Goa.
	www.goanet.org /pipermail/goanet/2004-August/108604.html (1896 words)

	imaginathon: Open Letter to Tehelka
		In the past year Tehelka gave space to activists, to social workers, to NGOs, to Dalit groups, to universities, to professors and students alike, to eunuchs who are models and to misfits masquerading as MPs.
		Tehelka has tried to use their appeal to engage with crucial issues, instead of the fripperies of clothes and parties...”.
		Tehelka need to be a bit more innovative in their approach to make themselves known(rather to make themselves known differently).
	imaginathon.blogspot.com /2005/03/open-letter-to-tehelka_11.html (5566 words)

	MSN India - Raid: Tehelka alleges vendetta :: News Section
		Tehelka had denied that they had hired the person who was arrested and threatened action against the Saharanpur superintendent of police.
		Tehelka journalists have questioned the timing of the CBI raid because the Samata Party leader Jaya Jaitley was expected to appear before the Venkataswami Commission today along with members of the Tehelka team.
		Tehelka lawyers say there is no legal basis for the raids and the searches violate the law.
	autofeed.msn.co.in /pandora/output/81B21BFA-B25B-44C2-8EE7-F0D15CD8E432.asp (524 words)

	The Hindu : Tehelka: what next?
		Tehelka may be a stranger to convention, but is it entitled to special privileges simply because it uncovers big truths?
		Tehelka - and, indeed, the media - can argue that given the nature of the persons and the issues involved, a public interest defence should be taken into account along the logic of the New York Times and Auto Shanker cases.
		In the case of Tehelka-II, it is a moot question whether Tehelka can be indicted for (a) running a brothel (widely defined to include a vehicle) for `gain for another', (ii) procurement for commercial gain (iii) or detention in a place of prostitution, whether with or without consent.
	www.hinduonnet.com /thehindu/2001/09/07/stories/05072523.htm (1250 words)

	Goa CM is more concerned about tourism than child abuse: Harinder Baweja : HindustanTimes.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Tehelka has made a charter of demands and one of these demands is that Manohar Parrikar makes the report public immediately.
		Tehelka managed to unearth documents that leave a huge paper trail and even a cursory look at these documents will shock you into how ignorant the police is.
		tehelka: Paedophiles are known to visit popular tourist destinations and Tehelka expose` also deals with the fact that the paedophiles then take their victims from Goa to other popular destinations or cities like Jaipur and Mumbai.
	www.hindustantimes.com /news/181_931546,0020.htm (1675 words)

	India - News - Tehelka In Talks With Zee To Offload Equity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The spokesperson clarified that Zee did get the story (of the expose and the related videotapes) a bit earlier (than other news channels) but this was on account of one-on-one relationship between journalists of both the companies.
		We want Tehelka to be a comprehensive multimedia company shortly," Bahal said but declined to divulge the amount of equity up for sale.
		He said this will be the second round of divestment; 20 per cent of Tehelka's equity has already been divested to individuals and companies including First Global.
	www3.estart.com /india/news/tehelkazee.html (322 words)

	India's cultural elite revive muckraking magazine \| csmonitor.com
		While the majority of Tehelka's articles are based on straight reporting and analysis, the sting operation, Tehelka's signature, remains a potent resource.
		Tehelka first hit the map in 2001 with an exposé of match-fixing in professional cricket, India's national pastime.
		While the Indian military used the Tehelka tapes as evidence against officers involved, the politicians questioned the veracity of the tapes and attacked the journalists' ethics.
	www.csmonitor.com /2004/0726/p06s02-wosc.html (875 words)

	Daily Excelsior....News Page
		Tehelka said a top IAS official in the Defence Ministry even issued a letter to a Major General in the second week of January in relation to the deal and then asked for Rs.two lakh in cash.
		The Tehelka team allegedly also paid Rs one lakh to industrialist Surendra Singh Sulekha who took them to Ms Jaitly and Rs 10,000 to Mr Bangaru Laxman’s PS Raju Venkatesh and a gold chain to Additional Secretary in the Defence Ministry L N Mehta.
		While Tehelka had named a national trustee of RSS in its expose, the RSS itself said that there was no question of the existence of a national trustee as the organisation was not a trust.
	www.dailyexcelsior.com /01mar14/news.htm (5003 words)

	Colonel convicted in Tehelka case
		He was convicted for accepting illegal gratification of Rs 20,000 from Tehelka journalists, who had posed as arms dealers, on two occasions, of accepting hospitality of liquor and call girls, which he himself admitted during the GCM proceedings, and meeting officials of arms dealers without taking Directorate of Military Intelligence's permission.
		The GCM was ordered in April 2004 in the wake of the Tehelka expose in September 2000.
		Tehelka is doing a great work but what exactly is the motive of exposing all these people or cases.
	in.rediff.com /news/2005/jan/12teh.htm (181 words)

	Tehelka expose raise more questions - Deccan Herald (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Tehelka has alleged that it was Madhu Srivastava’s bribing that led to Zaheera changing her testimony in the original trial at Vadodara’s fast track court in May, 2003.
		In her testimony in the original trial, Zaheera had disowned her police statement in which she had named nine accused and refused to identify any of the 21 accused facing the trial as being part of the attacking mob.
		The Tehelka video tape shows both Madhu Srivastava and his cousin Chandrakant Srivastava alias Batthoo, who is a Congress corporator, claiming payment of Rs 18 lakh to Zaheera.
	www.deccanherald.com /deccanherald/dec242004/n13.asp (919 words)

	Buffalo Networks spins off Tehelka; in talks with VCs
		Tehelka is looking for long-term investors as the company is unlikely to earn profits at least in the first two years.
		Tehelka creates original content which will be distributed across Net, television, radio and print.
		Tehelka will distribute the content through alliances with channel owners except in the case of the Net where the channel is owned by the company.
	www.thehindubusinessline.com /2001/05/03/stories/150339bf.htm (440 words)

	BW Online \| May 2, 2001 \| This Editor Has India Taking Note
		The day Tehelka released the detailed script of the defense investigation online, TV and radio stations and even the print media carried the story to the rest of the nation.
		Tehelka has spent just $1.2 million since it began, mostly on salaries and story costs.
		Tehelka will soon get a marketing team and a chief operating officer of its own, and Tejpal plans to branch out into book publishing, TV, and music.
	www.businessweek.com /technology/content/may2001/tc2001052_796.htm (1401 words)

	India Today Magazine
		Tehelka says Rs 2 lakh was paid to someone in the room, someone who the transcript claims is Sreenivasa Prasad, minister of state for consumer affairs and Samata Party MP.
		The relevant fact is that Jaitly had signalled her acceptance of the money by asking it to be sent to Prasad.
		It took her party over a week to point out Tehelka's error in saying Prasad was in the room.
	www.india-today.com /itoday/20010402/cover-aicc3.shtml (1043 words)

	The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Tehelka 'Expose'
		Demanding resignation of the government on moral grounds on the alleged defence scam, the Congress today said the future of the nation was not safe in the hands of a government which was ridden with corruption.
		The partners of the National Democratic Alliance government with the BJP in the vanguard have taken to the offensive in blunting the countrywide action plan of the Congress to dislodge the corrupt and shameful union government which proved to be a damp squib.
		With fast moving political developments in the wake of the Tehelka expose, BJP National Executive meeting is to be held here on March 24 and 25 instead of scheduled March 30 and 31 in Kolkota.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2001/20010322/tehelka.htm (2308 words)

	agencyfaqs! > talkies > What does brand Tehelka stand for?
		Tehelka as a brand is synonymous to the name..a perfect brand name...
		At the same time it did create Tehelka, that should be appreciated, but alas, a Tehelka which died its natural death....
		Tehelka as the name suggests stands for tehelka machaa diya.I would extend to a magazine newspaper which fulfills the same purpose of sensational journalism.
	www.agencyfaqs.com /talkies/25 (763 words)

	Tehelka footage is fake, says MLA's kin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Srivastava claimed that the footage shown by Tehelka was a "totally fabricated one and that efforts were made to defame him and his cousin Madhu".
		On being asked about the allegations of having given Rs 18 lakh to Zaheera to turn hostile, as claimed by Tehelka, Srivastava said, "there was no substance in the allegations.
		On being asked to explain what was shown to media by Tehelka as part of its expose in the Best Bakery case, he said "it was a trap by Nisar and he is involved in defaming us".
	ww1.mid-day.com /news/nation/2004/december/99987.htm (261 words)

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