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Tehelka -A Good Weekly

by Nikhil

Welcome back!

It was an usual stop at a traffic point. A boy accosted me with a lot of mags ,the Tehelka caught my attention. Decision had to be made within seconds. The counter at the traffic was closing to zero. My mind was wavering with the to buy or not decision. Thoughts like won’t this be another collection of crap passed through my mind. Decided to buy.

Tehelka is great. I had expected a third rate sleazy crime magazine. My expectation and reality turned out to be poles apart.

This is mag with contributions from the so called Delhi elite, the journo clique, the babus,film makers and Scholars. A mag meant for serious reading. I felt I was reading the Hindu, a sense of relief from the yuppie trash that TOI is dishing out(Their BangaloreTimes is horrible, and the Sunday Times too).

The issue in this issue of Tehelka ranges from social (laborers, women, child marriages of Chattisgarh etc) to politics, diplomacy and the old Operation West End. Tehelka is not for the Page 3 junta.

Quite surprisingly it covered a piece( a small one in fact) on a Soap Making unit in Kerala(Aleppey), making Maari Soaps -women empowerment. Never read abt this thing even in Malayala Manorama or saw it in any Mallu TV channel.

I don’t understand why the newer mags are moving to tabloid size(India Shining and this any connection??)

I feel sorry for missing the earlier 17 issue of this wonderful sheets of paper. Tejpal is clever enough to go the India Today way with only subscribers being allowed to “enter” their site. Teju superb piece . Great!!!