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

Tehelka ''Tehelka'' (Hindi: Sensation) 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 a ...

''. Bahal was born in

Allahabad Allahabad (), officially known as Prayagraj, also known as Ilahabad, is a metropolis in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.The other five cities were: Agra, Kanpur (Cawnpore), Lucknow, Meerut, and Varanasi (Benares). It is the administrat ...

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 and former editor-in-chief of ''Tehelka'' magazine. In November 2013, he stepped down as editor for six months after a female colleague accused him of sexual assault. ...

and another colleague from the ''Outlook'' after "an investor with deep pockets" agreed to underwrite their startup, according to the ''Independent''. In 2003, Bahal wrote an espionage thriller ''

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''. 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 v ...

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

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Bibliography

*''Crack in the Mirror'' (1991) *''

'' (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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