A Taste for Trouble

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>About the Book</strong></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>AN EASY TO READ ANECDOTAL ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE OF ONE OF INDIA'S BEST-KNOWN INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISTS. </strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>ANIRUDDHA BAHAL has spelt trouble for the Establishment for as long as he can even remember. As a boy of barely fifteen he ran away from home all the way from Allahabad to Bombay-returning a week later chastened and penniless but with valuable lessons learnt. As a journalist he transformed the definition and boundaries of reporting with the risks he took and the stories he chased down. And he paid the price for it. As a writer his first novel won him international recognition- as well as the Bad Sex in Fiction Award handed to him by no less a personage than Sting. As an entrepreneur he went against the grain in setting up an investigative news portal at a time when speaking truth to power was no longer on the agenda of media houses. Over the years this restless mischievous boy from a village in Uttar Pradesh has come to epitomise the rough and tumble of political journalism in New Delhi. What does such a man see and remember when he looks back? Of people incidents turning points the disappointments and the triumphs both personal and professional? Some memories Bahal says are better left buried but </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>A Taste for Trouble</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> brings together those that continue to keep him anchored in the present and hopeful about the future.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>About the Author</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Aniruddha Bahal is the founder and editor-in-chief of Cobrapost.com an Indian investigative non- profit website. Previously he worked for </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>India Today Down to Earth Financial Express</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> and </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Outlook</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> among other publications. He also co-founded Tehelka.com.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Bahal is the author of two novels </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Bunker 13</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> (2003) and </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The Emissary</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> (2010) and a comic </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The Adventures of Rhea: The Cobrapost Affair</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> (2015).</span></p>