| Language | English |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10 | 8172237995 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-81-7223-799-8 |
| No of pages | 522 |
| Font Size | Medium |
| Book Publisher | Harper Collins |
| Published Date | 09 Jan 2009 |
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| Language | English |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10 | 8172237995 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-81-7223-799-8 |
| No of pages | 522 |
| Font Size | Medium |
| Book Publisher | Harper Collins |
| Published Date | 09 Jan 2009 |
Tarun J Tejpal is a journalist, publisher, and novelist. In a 26-year career, he has been an editor with the India Today and the Indian Express groups, and the managing editor of Outlook, India’s premier newsmagazine.
In March 2000, he started Tebelak, a news organization that has earned a global reputation for its aggressive public interest journalism.
In 2001, Asia week listed Tejpal as one of Asia’s 50 most powerful communicators, and BusinessWeek declared him among 50 leaders at the forefront of change in Asia.
In 2007 The Guardian named him among the 20 who constitute India's new elite. In 2009 BusinessWeek has named Taren one of India’s 50 most powerful people.
Taren’s debut novel, The Alchemy of Desire, published in 2005, was hailed by Sunday Times as “an impressive and memorable debut”.
Le Figaro called it a “masterpiece”; and Nobel Laureate V.S. Naipaul declared, “At last – a new and brilliantly original novel from India.”
Translated into more than a dozen languages, in France the book won the Prix Mileages and was the finalist for the prestigious Prix Fermina.
Taren’s second novel, The Story of My Assassins has been published in 2009 to rave reviews. Pankaj Mishra has said, "It sets new and dauntingly high standards for Indian writing in English", while Altaf Trehala has called it "an instant classic".
He has just recently stepped down from his position as editor of the Tebelak magazine in light of charges of repeated sexual harassment brought against him by a female journalist.
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I could sense that in that swirling mad room, every eye had slowly come to rest on him. I saw even coroner in all his pasty majesty sneak a look or two.Sethiji said, ‘They say he is the future king of western UP. His name is Cathode Tyagi. Before he was nineteen he'd killed his first five men by caving their skulls in with a hammer. Full brain curry.
Now, of course, he shoots people – through their ears, in their mouths, up their assholes. Today he kills you, tomorrow your enemy. Like Sashimi gets up and comes to Patiala House courts every morning, he goes out every day and dispatches a few sorry souls to Yam raj directly. He works only for the big mafia dons now. When they want a big job done, they send for Cathode Tyagi. You should be proud.
Not just Sashimi, even the mafia thinks you are a big man! ‘Sara said, 'They are being framed. ‘I looked at her. She said, 'Can't you see they are being framed! ‘I said, 'How can you tell? ‘A muscular, incisive, and deeply sardonic comment on twenty-first century India, The Story of My Assassins is a multilayered novel that skillfully slashes through the subcontinent’s dubious spiritual serenity to lay bare every crippling divide of language, wealth and class.
Trawling life and death in the dark underside, it inquires into the inexorable codes of power and wealth that propel societies. A triumph of disparate voices, unbearable realities, and impossible conundrums, this is a book that will forever change the way we look at the world around us.