Aniruddha Bahal is the founder and editor-in-chief of Cobrapost an Indian news website. Prior to founding Cobrapost, he co-founded ''

Tehelka ''Tehelka'' () is an Indian news magazine known for its investigative journalism and sting operations. According to the British newspaper ''The Independent'', the ''Tehelka'' was founded by Tarun Tejpal, Aniruddha Bahal and another colleague ...

''.

Early life and education

Bahal was born in

Allahabad Prayagraj (, ; ISO 15919, ISO: ), formerly and colloquially known as Allahabad, is a metropolis in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.The other five cities were: Agra, Kanpur, Kanpur (Cawnpore), Lucknow, Meerut, and Varanasi, Varanasi (Benar ...

and is a university graduate. He moved to Delhi in 1991 where he began his journalistic career by writing and editing some articles at the ''Outlook'' and the ''India Today''. In 1999, he co-founded Tehelka.com – a news website, with

Tarun Tejpal Tarun Tejpal (born 15 March 1963) is an Indian journalist, publisher, novelist, entrepreneur and founder editor of Tehelka magazine. He is known for the groundbreaking human interest and investigative journalism that was pioneered by Tehelka bet ...

and another colleague from the ''Outlook'' after "an investor with deep pockets" agreed to underwrite their startup, according to the ''Independent''.

Work

In 2003, Bahal wrote an espionage thriller '' Bunker 13''. Its "hipster-slang-spitting antihero", states an article on Bahal in the UK-based newspaper the ''Independent'', "shoots smack, snorts speed, runs guns, administers date-rape drugs" and a scene therein went on to win the ''Literary Review's''

Bad Sex in Fiction Award ''Literary Review'' is a British literary magazine founded in 1979 by Anne Smith, then head of the Department of English at the University of Edinburgh. Its offices are on Lexington Street in Soho. The magazine was edited for fourteen years by ...

. In 2005, Bahal founded and became the editor-in-chief of the online news magazine Cobrapost. It is particularly known for its undercover sting operations. In 2008, he started hosting ''The Tony B Show'' for

Channel V Channel '' ("V" as in the letter, not the Roman numeral "5") is a Chinese and former Asian pay television musical network originally launched by Star TV Hong Kong (now Disney Networks Group Asia Pacific). It was part of the unit of Disney In ...

Bibliography

*''Crack in the Mirror'' (1991) *'' Bunker 13'' (2003) *''The Emissary'' (2010) *''The Adventures of Rhea: The Cobrapost Affair'' (2015) *''A Taste For Trouble : Memories From Another Time'' (2021)

References

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