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Bahal makes debut as a novelist
New Delhi, June 19: A newsmaker and a news-breaker, Tehelka journalist Aniruddha Bahal today made his debut as a novelist as his book `Bunker 13`--a thriller encompassing a large canvass of drug trade and corruption in the establishment--was released here today.
"It is also not written to give details of the corruption
in the country because it is a fact that fiction cannot have the same impact as a newspaper headline or a news clipping,"
said the author who was a key member of the sting "Operation
West End" which produced an expose into corruption in defence deals.
The book, which was released earlier in the US and the
UK, has received applauding response there, with the observer equating it with the all-time great 'The Naked And The Dead'
of Norman Mailer. The Scotland on Sunday said "Hyperbole is
never in short supply in the publishing industry but the hype
surrounding Bahal's debut novel is, for once, richly
deserved."
Bureau Report