Tehelka

Founded by Tarun Tejpal, Tehelka whipped up a national storm with its courageous defence and cricket exposes. They designed an investigations team to tenaciously go after ‘big stories’, even when this took months longer than the normal business cycle.

The courage to challenge the most entrenched establishment is remarkable. Tehelka is a powerful example of a media company taking on a well-oiled relationship, which creates a cozy nexus between politics, businesses and media. Tehelka decided to get stories by doing exposes on the truth, no matter where it is hidden, whom it involved, and what the consequences were. Tehelka was in search of the ultimate truth; the motive that every budding journalist has, yet end up pursuing.