Aniruddha Bahal is the founder and editor in chief of Cobrapost.com, an Indian news Web site. He is also the co-founder and former CEO of Tehelka.com. He has worked for India Today and Outlook, among other publications, and lives in Noida, near New Delhi. His recent novel is Bunker 13.
AniruddhaBahal’s Bunker 13 is a drugs, sex and espionage nail-biter on the Indo-Pak border.
Investigative journalist AniruddhaBahal’s first novel Bunker 13 has created a sensation in the literary world and promises to be one of the biggest fiction titles of the year worldwide.
AniruddhaBahal is no stranger to fame and controversy.
AniruddhaBahal may console himself with the thought that he'll get to meet Sting, at any rate, who presents this year's Bad Sex awards.
Bahal won in the teeth of fierce competition from Paulo Coelho ("I was the earth, the mountains, the tigers, the rivers that flowed into the lakes, the lake that became the sea") and Ron Liddle ("She came with the exhilarating whoops and pant-hoots of a troop of Rhesus monkeys, which was flattering, if alarming").
Bahal may be pleased to know that Rushdie didn't make the grade when he was nominated in 1999 for a passage from The Ground Beneath Her Feet: the judges considered the passage "too scientific" to enable the necessary suspension of disbelief.
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