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 Tehelka, a news organisation that has earned a global reputation for its aggressive public interest journalism. Tarun Tejpal is a Founder of India Ink, the publishing house that published, among others, Booker-award winning The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy.