Hunooz Dilli Dur Ast
(First published in Kafila under the headline, ‘Let’s be fair to Tarun Tejpal. Let us listen to his side of the story’ on 2 April 2014.)
A number of people are saying that Tarun Tejpal has been held guilty and convicted by a media trial. They are saying that the media and public have both chosen to not hear “the other side of the story”. Continue reading “How Tarun Tejpal implicated himself in his own words”
(First published in Scroll on 2 April 2014 under the headline ‘Six ways of looking at the Tarun Tejpal tapes’)
Japanese director Akira Kurosawa’s Rashomon depicts the same incident from the perspective of four people. All the versions are different – and all four seem believable. In the case of the Tarun Tejpal CCTV footage, we have at least six versions of what the tapes in the hotel lobby are said to depict. Continue reading “Why the ‘CCTV footage’ defence of Tarun Tejpal is bogus”
Shivam Vij 