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An evening with Tarun Tejpal, author of "The Story of my Assassins"

  • 2012-10-04
  • 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
  • Asia Society, 725 Park Avenue (at 70th Street), New York, NY

Asia Society, New York and the South Asian Journalists Association 

An evening with Tarun Tejpal, author of "The Story of my Assassins"

on Thursday October 4, 2012

6:30pm - 8:30pm

Asia Society

725 Park Avenue (at 70th Street), New York, NY

Tickets: $10 Asia Society and SAJA members; $12 Students with ID/Seniors; $15 non-members

Please bring a printout of your profile page to prove SAJA membership

Details:

Join journalist, publisher and novelist Tarun Tejpal in conversation with Tunku Varadarajan(Newsweek International) about his latest book, the highly acclaimed The Story of My Assassins. Followed by a book sale and signing.

Inspired by actual events, The Story of My Assassins tells the story of a journalist who learns that the police have captured five hitmen on their way to kill him. Landing like a bombshell on his comfortable life, the news prompts him to launch an urgent investigation into the lives of his would-be murderers undefined a ragtag group of street thugs and village waifs undefined and their mastermind. Who wanted him dead, and why?

But the investigation forces him to reexamine his own life, too undefined to confront his own complex feelings about the country that crafted his would-be killers, as well as himself, his job, and his treatment of the women in his life.

Part thriller and part erotic romance, full of dark humor and taut suspense, The Story of My Assassins takes us from the lavish, hedonistic palaces of India’s elite to its seediest slums.

Tarun J. Tejpal is a journalist, publisher, novelist and founder of Tehelka, one of India’s leading news magazines that is renowned for its aggressive public interest journalism. He has been named one of India’s most influential people by The GuardianBusinessweek and Asiaweek.

Tejpal famously reported for Tehelka on the devastating corruption in India’s defense industry. The investigation led to the resignation of the defense minister undefined and to the death threats that inspired The Story of My Assassins.

A celebrated literary novelist as well as a journalist, Tejpal has won international critical acclaim. His debut novel The Alchemy of Desire received rave reviews, including in theWashington PostLos Angeles TimesGuardian, and others, and was praised by V.S. Naipaul as “a new and brilliantly original novel from India.” The Alchemy of Desire also won France’s Prix Mille Pages, for foreign literary fiction, and Tejpal’s second novel, The Valley of Masks, was longlisted for the 2011 Man Asian Literary Prize.

Tejpal's media enterprises also include book publishing undefined as the founder of independent publishing house India Ink, Tejpal was responsible for discovering Arundhati Roy and first publishing her Booker Award-winning novel The God of Small Things.

“Tarun Tejpal is clever and inventive. In the profoundest way he writes for India.” undefined V.S. Naipaul

Tunku Varadarajanis the editor of Newsweek International. He is also the Virginia Hobbs Carpenter Fellow in Journalism at Stanford's Hoover Institution. He was an editor at the Wall Street Journal from 2000 to 2007, an executive editor for opinion at Forbes, and served at theTimes of London as both the New York and Madrid bureau chief. He is an adjunct professor at the City University of New York’s Graduate School of Journalism, and has been a clinical professor at the Stern School of Business at New York University, an adjunct professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, and a lecturer in law at Trinity College, Oxford.

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