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Who can forget Operation West End that brought into light the extent of corruption happening in the Indian defence arena and lead to resignation of our Defence Minister? Or the Match fixing scam that disappointed millions of Indian cricket fans yet not able to regain the faith and trust they once had in their favourite game. 

The man behind all these breathtaking stories, Tarun Tejpal, in conversation with Deepika Bhardwaj for Yourstory.

The face of Indian Investigative Journalism, a person who undauntedly broke stories that could cost his life, a man who never feared getting the truth out, Tarun Tejpal is a journalist, publisher, novelist and an entrepreneur. In his 26-year long career, he has been Editor with India Today and Indian Express groups, and the managing editor of Outlook,  India’s premier newsmagazine. He started Tehelka in March 2000, a news organisation that has earned a global reputation for its aggressive public interest journalism. He has been listed as one of Asia’s 50 most powerful communicators by Asiaweek and The Guardian named him among the 20 who constitute India's new elite. In 2009 BusinessWeek has named Tarun one of India’s 50 most powerful people.

Tarun always wanted to be a journalist and a writer. Even after being associated with the biggest newspapers of India like Indian Express, Telegraph, he felt he was not doing what he always wanted to. Entrepreneurship happened due to this realization “After all these years, I reached a point where I had to understand that I would not be able to do what I wish to do unless I have my levers on the commercial ends of the organizations. And it is a fact that becoming an entrepreneur gave me an elbow room. I wanted to be safer in my life and my own work and that was possible only when I partly owned the organization and have a commercial say in the kind of journalism I did”