When a militant dies in Kashmir tehelkatv 2016-03-10 | The video is just 1.15 minute long. And it has gone viral in Kashmir. It is about a father in a South Kashmir village asking his militant son Showkat Ahmad Lone to surrender before the waiting security personnel close in and kill him. A posse of soldiers pushes the frail, pheran-clad old man to the front with a megaphone in hand - its red narrow end and the white cone-shaped horn is the only colour in the hauntingly gray video.
Saffron Army tehelkatv 2016-01-14 | Welcome To Saffron Corridor!Not far from New Delhi, an army of Hindu extremists is taking shape on the ashes of Muzaffarnagar to take on ‘Islamic terror’ and ‘Muslim terrorists’. Ankush Vats and Amit Bhardwaj report from Ground Zero. Photographs by Vijay Pandey.“Musalmanon ka pravesh varjit hai (Muslims not allowed)” reads a banner at the gate of the famous Devi temple at Dasna village in Ghaziabad district, 2 km down a dusty road from NH-24 and not far from the national capital. Inside, a teenager is thrashing a 10-year-old boy as the priest looks on, a smirk on his face. As the bully moves aside to get hold of a bamboo stick, the child runs and is chased until he is out of the gate.The 10-year-old is Muslim. The priest says he had come to collect water from the temple pond. “That water is sacred,” he explains while the correspondents are being taken to meet Swami Narsinghanand Maraharaj, the mahant (head priest). “It has the power to cure diseases. I don’t understand why they [Muslims] come here when their entry is banned. They just don’t get it.”To read more: http://www.tehelka.com/2016/01/welcome-to-saffron-corridor
Saffron Army Teaser tehelkatv 2016-01-13 | Western Uttar Pradesh is turning into battleground in Hindutva's war on muslims.
ASI Forgets Its Monument tehelkatv 2015-12-18 | Adam Khan’s tomb in Mehrauli is one of the many monuments in Delhi that have been neglected by the Archeological Survey of India. The ASI officials refuse to reply to anyone asking questions about such neglect. So, TEHELKA filed an RTI to probe into the matter. However, we got very obscure and ambiguous replies. Therefore, we filed another RTI. It has been over two months since but we are still waiting for proper replies
Occupy UGC Movement tehelkatv 2015-12-11 | Students filed a petition against the Delhi Police for locking up more than 150 protestors from universities across the country, who were among those marching to the Parliament to make their voices heard.These protests are part of the larger ‘Occupy UGC’ movement. Students have been protesting against the government’s regressive policies on education since October this year.
Tehelka poetry with Rohita tehelkatv 2015-11-23 | She identifies as a confessional poet and enjoys writing about the human mind, depicted through the physical world, descriptively connecting the two.
Bhojpuri performances at Kalindi Kunj hurt the sentiments of Purvanchalis tehelkatv 2015-11-20 | A video recording of the event shows a popular Bhojpuri song, ‘Godiya me humka le la piya (Let me sit on your lap, my love)’, was being sung out there publicly during the religious event.
Tehelka poetry with Asad Ashraf tehelkatv 2015-11-17 | During the 15 year long war against Terror, more than 26000 civilians have been killed alone in Afghanistan and another 29000 wounded. Casualty of the equal intensity is reported from Iraq. The west bank in Palestine has been since long been bombed consistently by the Isreali Air force amidst the ongoing conflict in the region. Israeli tanks have bulldozed thousands on the ground. It once rolled over the American poet, activist and diarist Richeal Corie. It is ironical that the dominant narrative around terrorism does not acknowledge these killings as an act of terror. But as soon as there is an attack in a country dominated by the Whites, one gets to hear about the need of speeding up of war against terror. ‘The World in My Schizophrenic imagination’ is dedicated to all those killed in war against terror so far and also those innocent people who have been killed by the extremist forces in the name of revenge and Islam.
Tehelka poetry with Tenzin Tsundue tehelkatv 2015-10-28 | Tenzin Tsundue is a restless young Tibetan, graduated from Madras, South India. Braved, snowstorms and treacherous mountains, broke all the rules and restrictions to cross the Himalayas on foot and went into forbidden Tibet, to see the situation of his occupied country and lend a hand to the freedom struggle, then arrested by China’s border police, and locked up in prison in Lhasa for three months, then later ‘pushed back’ to India.Born to a Tibetan refugee family who laboured on India’s border roads around Manali, North India, during the chaotic era of Tibetan refugee resettlement in the early seventies, Tenzin Tsundue is a writer-activist, a rare blend in the Tibetan community in exile.He published his first book of poems, Crossing the Border, in 1999 with money begged and borrowed from his classmates at Bombay University. In 2001 he won the ‘Outlook-Picador Award for Non-Fiction’. His second book, Kora is already in its eighth edition, and his third title, Semshook is in its third edition. The third edition Tsen-GÖl first published in March 2012.
Tehelka Music Project - JJI Exile Brothers tehelkatv 2015-10-21 | The band, comprised of three brothers, takes it title from the intialsof the three musicians, Jamyang, Jigme and Ingsel. Jamyang, Eldestbrother, resonsible for lead vocals and bass guiter, while Jigme, middlebrother, plays lead guiter and a wide range of other instruments, andIngsel, the youngest of the group, is the bands percussionist and workswith a number of traditional Tibetan instruments as well.Born and raised in exile, the brothers use their music to spreadawareness of the Tibetan freedom struggle and to convey messages ofpeace and love on a global scale. In their own words, the brothershumbly serve to "carry the spirit of the freedom struggle from the past,re-live it in the present, and preserve it for the future".Drawing on numerous styles of contemporary music such as rock, jazz andblues as well as on their own traditional Tibetan roots, the band'smusic is an honest and hopeful expression of the immortal Tibetan spiritand a reminder of the innate human qualities of love, compassion andtruth.Founded in 1998, they have had the opportunity to perform innumerous environments, including a private performance for Karmapa aswell as one near His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama.Using the universal language of music, the JJI Exile Brothers boldlycarry the message of the Tibetan people and their fight for freedom withsongs that transcend barriers of time, culture, language and belief.They believe in the power of music to reach people from all walks oflife, without discrimination of race, country, or religion. "Throughmusic," they say, "we can bring the word together."Read more about Tibetan struggle, music and musicians on http://goo.gl/9DJLHX
Tehelka Poetry - Dissenting Voices.. tehelkatv 2015-10-13 | As the numbers of writers and poets outcrying the atmosphere of communalism in India swell...TEHELKA POETRY takes you to the likes of K Sachidanandan and Ashok Vajpeyi who through their lucid yet moving poetry, pass a scathing judgment on the rising intolerance within India. A land where the sane acting like the insane are increasingly embracing fundamentalism over secularism; annihilating the very soul of India.
Tehelka poetry with Latheesh Mohan tehelkatv 2015-10-05 | Latheesh Mohan is a well known bilingual poet who writes in Malayalam and English. Presently a Ph.D student in philosophy at IIT Delhi, he also leads the art society Backyard Civilization Collective in Kochi. He has organized many language-art performance events in Kerala. Published two collections of poetry in Malayalam which won critical acclaim. His poems are part of the curriculum in two Universities in Kerala.
Tehelka poetry with Ashok Vajpeyi tehelkatv 2015-09-14 | Ashok Vajpeyi, famous Hindi poet, Here for us he is reciting his poem 'Hamaarre paas'. According to him 'poetry is a civilizational critique of the public from the standpoint of the personnel and the individual'. He is a winner of Sahitya akademi award for his poetry collection 'Kahin nahin wahin'. In this poem he is saying about, What we got and what we have to do!
Tehelka poetry with Madan Kashyap tehelkatv 2015-09-08 | A poet and a social-cultural activist, Madan Kashyap has published two collections of poems – Udas hai pṛithvi and Nim rosni mem. He further published a collection of his political commentaries, Matbhed.
Tehelka Music Project - Giselle tehelkatv 2015-09-01 | A singer-songwriter and musician, Giselle officially came on staff with Jews for Jesus in 2010. There she served as a music coordinator for their mobile evangelistic music team, Blue Mosaic. Passionate about communicating the gospel to other young Jewish people and artists, Giselle became a full time missionary with Jews for Jesus, currently in New York City.
Tehelka Malayalam Poetry with K. Satchidanandan tehelkatv 2015-08-06 | K. Sachidanandan is an Indian poet and critic, writing in Malayalam and English.A pioneer of modern poetry in Malayalam, a bilingual critic, playwright, editor, literary columnist and translator. He is the former Editor of Indian Literature journal and the former Secretary of Sahitya Akademi.
Tehelka poetry with Keki N Daruwalla tehelkatv 2015-08-03 | Former Indian Police Service officer, who retired as Additional Director in the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW). He was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award, in 1984 for his poetry collection,The Keeper of the Dead, by the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters.He was awarded Padma Shri. He won the Sahitya Akademi Awardgiven by the Sahitya Akademi.
Tehelka Music Project - Above the Shadows tehelkatv 2015-07-29 | Above The Shadows is a Hindi Alternative Rock band based in Delhi. Formed in early 2014, the band has recorded 4 original tracks in their own recording studio(a laptop and a mic in a hostel room) till date. The band plans to compile an album for a future release. Rohit Singh Bhau- Lead Guitarist/Songwriter/ProducerSiddharth Chauhan-Vocalist/GuitaristRaghav Gupta(Guest) - Tabla
Tehelka poetry with Anamika tehelkatv 2015-07-24 | She is the author of eight collections of poetry five novels and four works of criticism. She has won numerous awards, including the Bharat Bhushan Award for Poetry (1996), the Girija Mathur Samman (1998), the Sahityakar Samman (1998), the Parampara Samman (2001), the Sahityasetu Samman (2004) and Kedar Samman (2007). Anamika is Reader at the Department of English, Satyawati College, University of Delhi.
Tehelka Music Project - Four2six tehelkatv 2015-07-15 | Four2Six formed in August, 2013 and currently based out in Delhi with Kunal Sharma on Drums & Percussion, Rahul Rana on Bass Guitar and Nitesh Rana on Vocals and Rhythm Guitar.Since inception, band soul purpose is to create soulful music that heals.Rather then following a specific genre, band believes in musicality and tries to experiment with different sounds and genres.
Tehelka poetry with Mayanka Dave Mukherjee tehelkatv 2015-07-06 | Mayanka completes her Bachelor of Arts in Sociology in May 2015. She is a spoken word poet, and uses this medium to deal with ideas of gender, communalism and misconstrued notions of development, simultaneously experimenting with rhythm, pace, volume, repetition and other vocal devices, thereby allowing the form and the content to shape one another. She has also been involved in theatre through directing, scriptwriting and acting, focusing on a corporeal dialogue with spaces. Her research projects, while dealing with themes of liminality, material culture, graffiti, have explored several mediums such as film, urban-mapping, role-play and self-created board games. Though her MPhil in Visual Material and Museum Anthropology at Oxford, she wants to study ideas of visual literacy and object-centred narratives to be able to innovate newer methodologies within anthropology.
Tehelka poetry with K. Satchidanandan tehelkatv 2015-06-23 | K. Satchidanandan is an Indian poet and critic writing in Malayalam and English.A pioneer of modern poetry in Malayalam, a bilingual critic, playwright, editor, literary columnist and translatorHe is the former Editor of Indian Literature journal andthe former Secretary of Sahitya Akademi.
Tehelka Music Project - River tehelkatv 2015-06-23 | RIVER is a trio composed of Kamakshi Khanna, Tarana Marwah and Abhilasha Sinha. They came together for their love of harmonies, soul music and The Staves.Location : Kunzum Travel Cafe
Tehelka poetry with Sukrita Paul Kumar tehelkatv 2015-06-13 | Sukrita Paul Kumar has over four decades of teaching experience as Associate professor at Graduate and Post-Graduate courses on English literature. She has done significant work in diversified areas like women’s studies, literary translations, and cultural diversity and literary traditions of India.She has been recipient of several national and international grants and fellowships and has lectured at Cambridge University. As a writer with wide exposure to traditions of both Hindi and Urdu literatures, she edited a volume of Urdu short stories from India and Pakistan,Mapping Memories.
Tehelka Music Project - Chaar Hazaari tehelkatv 2015-06-08 | Chaar Hazaari is a Folk Rock band from Delhi. The band was founded in the year 2012, the name of which in itself is a story. Inspired by Indie Rock music of Mr Raghu Dixit, Kailash Kher & Amit Trivedi, it shares a dream to play, breathe music as long & as much as it wants.
Tehelka Poetry - With Sudeep Sen tehelkatv 2015-06-07 | Known to be one of India's finest young poets, Sudeep Sen is an award winning Indian English poet and editor shuttling between London, New York and New Delhi. Sen has also directed or co-directed several short films and documentaries. The Government of India awarded him the senior fellowship for “outstanding persons in the field of culture.”
Tehelka Music Project - Rooftop Sundays tehelkatv 2015-05-25 | Rooftop Sunday is a live Indie Electronic Music artist. His music is heavily influenced by melodic sources and he tries to keep his music as fresh, real and organic as possible.
Operation Death: Profit Over People tehelkatv 2015-04-10 | Favoring an American company over indigenous medical test kit manufacturers resulted in a loss of thousands of crores of common man's money and more than that loss of human lives.A deadly mix of medical negligence and pursuit of the profit motive has spelt countrywide disaster and shows no signs of abating as yet. There is a spine-chilling story about the raging swine flu that has caused more than 10,000 deaths in the country over the past six years. To read article, click link below: http://goo.gl/k2BFel
Promo: Operation Death tehelkatv 2015-04-07 | More than 10000 precious lives would not have been snuffed out, if only the profit motive was not to override everything else.A Tehelka investigation coming soon.
Teaser Operation Death tehelkatv 2015-04-04 | A deal which took more than 3600 lives? The latest Tehelka expose reveals the murky deals that led to loss of human lives. Watch this space for more...
Students abandoned by Himgiri Zee University tehelkatv 2015-03-31 | The ‘world-class’ university situated in the outskirts of Dehradun, which claims to provide ‘quality education’ to students has retracted from its stated motto. Spread across hundreds of acres, Himgiri Zee University, owned by The Essel Group has abandoned the students of its law department AND left the future of students in lurch.
How Congress Botched It Up tehelkatv 2015-03-18 | Tehelka explains how Congress' economic policies led to its poll debacle in 2014 Lok Sabha polls. These policies include the package to spur growth in 2009, allocation of resources, curb on imports, high inflation which will be analysed threadbear.
Delhi gang-rape documentary: How India treats its daughters tehelkatv 2015-03-05 | The documentary 'India's Daughter' has been banned in India. It was released just a few days ahead of the International Women's Day, which is celebrated on March 8. That may or may not be a coincidence.But in the wake of the documentary, one fact has got lost in the quagmire of words and accusations. That fact is the certain worsening of the status of women in Indian society. Earlier, women in India were considered nothing more than objects of desire, repositories of virtue and upholders of family values.Now, Indian women have been left alone to deal with the ignominy of being responsible for the vices of Indian men and their violent sexual and social conduct. A rape victim's trauma never ends. It's time we all listened to the whispers of India's namesless, faceless, countless Nirbhayas before it is too late.
ICC World Cup 2015: India vs West Indies tehelkatv 2015-03-04 | India face the Caribbeans in the next encounter of World cup 2015. Will the West Indies give the Indian team a fight in their encounter? Find out what fans have to say...
World Cup 2015: INDIA vs UAE tehelkatv 2015-02-27 | India's next game is against the minnows UAE in ICC cricket World Cup 2015. India looks to make it three in a row but can UAE be taken lightly? Find out what Indian cricket fans have to say.
Tata Steel exposed: Social Media smear campaign against Tehelka tehelkatv 2015-02-24 | In the event of an unprecedented positive response to the reality of Jamshadpur as presented by Tehelka in its cover story, the Tata Group has been caught unawares. Consequently, it has unleashed a comprehensive backlash on social media. From the moment the first preview of the cover story titled Tata Steals City released on Tehelka Facebook page, to the day of publishing the entire story on Tehelka website, Tata has gone berserk in its allegations.The negative comments on the cover story range from offensive to slanderous. Some target the reporters personally, Some question the credibility of Tehelka as a publication and others go so far as to say there are political motives behind the fact based story.Most comments have been written by mercenaries, with some comments coming in from Tata employees too clearly, the jittery nerves and knee jerk responses to the story narrate their own story. They are proof that the Tata Group is rattled by the real picture of Jamshedpur now being out in the public domain and the largest corporate house in India does not know how to handle this truth.
EVIDENCE: How TATA Steel killed a city tehelkatv 2015-02-23 | TEHELKA has clinching documentary evidence to support its claim that the non-constitution of a municipality is a direct result of the actions of the TATA Group.Aided by cleverly-drafted petitions and strategic loopholes in legal formalities, Jamshedpur now has the dubious distinction of being the only city in India whose residents do not have the right to self-government.Although attempts at giving the factory town such a municipal body have been going on since 1967 – nearly 60 years – the Tata Group has managed to successfully stall this, by means of protracted, ‘deliberately-misleading’ litigation.The fundamental lacuna in the administration of Jamshedpur comes from a lease agreement that appears to have been so drafted as to be deliberately ambiguous. Under the lease agreement, the land occupied by Tata Steel constitutes less than half of Jamshedpur’s estimated area of 37,000 acres. However, Tata is required to provide civic amenities to “the inhabitants of Jamshedpur”.On 21 August 1989, hearing Writ Petition (Civil) No. 154 of 1988, filed by Jawaharlal Sharma, a Jamshedpur resident, a Supreme Court bench comprising Justices Sabyasachi Mukherji, S Ranganathan and Kuldip Singh, ruled, “It has been brought to our notice that the Government of Bihar under Section 390A of the Bihar and Orissa Municipal Act, 1922, in 1967, had declared its intention to convert the notified area of Jamshedpur into a municipality… we are of the opinion that the government should consider the matter (a)fresh in the light of the facts and submissions and the points raised in the petition. We accordingly direct the Government to issue (a)notification declaring its intent to convert Jamshedpur into a Municipality under Section 390A of the said Act within a period of eight weeks from this date.”Tirelessly working for the cause of setting up a municipality in Jamshedpur, petitioner Jawaharlal Sharma is still awaiting a decision from the Supreme Court. Meanwhile, Jamshedpur waits, like it always has. “This is one of the longest-running instances of litigation in the state of Jharkhand. We started this battle for the civic rights of Jamshedpur in 1988, by filing a Writ Petition in the Supreme Court seeking conversion of JNAC into a municipality. This year, it will be 27 years since we began the never-ending litigation,” says Jawaharlal Sharma. “The actions of Tata Steel are tantamount to criminality and include violation of Constitutional provisions with regard to the functioning of municipal bodies,” he adds.Meanwhile, TATA STEEL has regularly awarded those abetting its policy of 'not constituting' a municipality in Jamshedpur. The clippings titled "Russi Mody's challenge to Laloo Govt" and "TISCO given top PR Award" are proof of this.Those claiming that Jamshedpur is one of the cleanest cities in India, with the best civic amenities, provided by JUSCO, clearly live in a paradise of their own making. Mostly, residents of Jamshedpur live amid pollution and squalor and have seen the Subarnarekha and Kharkai rivers turn into sewers, due to dumping of industrial effluents there by Tata Steel.
ICC cricket World Cup 2015: India vs South Africa tehelkatv 2015-02-21 | Men in Blue gear up to face Proteas this Sunday in their much-anticipated ICC World Cup 2015 match. India has never beaten South Africa in a WC match and all eyes are set on this game which will be a test of the Indian batting line-up against the South African pace battery. Check out what fans have to say. #Tehelkatv
How Tata Steel Killed A City tehelkatv 2015-02-18 | Tata Steel: The Lord and Master of JamshedpurJamshedpur is the headquarters of Tata Steel. Yet, this city is the only one in India which does not have a municipality and is ‘governed by’ the formidable industrial major. Despite 27 years of protracted litigation, Tata Steel has kept its company headquarters Jamshedpur deprived of basic civic amenities by denying it the right to have an elected municipal body. It's the only city in the country whose residents do not have the right to elect a municipality, keeping them deprived of basic civic amenities, including clean water supply and sanitation.For a detailed report, check out the latest issue of TEHELKA!
Fans speak about India vs Pakistan World Cup 2015 match tehelkatv 2015-02-14 | Fans speak about India vs Pakistan cricket match. India begins its cricket World Cup 2015 campaign tomorrow. Share your views and wishes for the Indian cricket team here. Watch the video to see what Indian cricket fans have to say. #Tehelka wishes the Boys in Blue all the very best!#CricketWorldCup #IndiavsPakistan#IndvsPak#WorldCup2015
Tehelka Music Project 2 Promo tehelkatv 2015-02-03 | And we are back again!!The Tehelka Music Project has returned with this season's best acts to stir up the independent music scene and promote aspiring artistes by providing them a platform to showcase their talent.
Tehelka Investigation: How forest officers net their PhDs tehelkatv 2015-02-02 | Dr Hilaluddin: The man behind IFS StoryThis TEHELKA investigation reveals how India’s premier institute for forestry research bent rules to grant doctorates to several forest service officers. http://goo.gl/yyNzpn
Tehelka Expose: Operation Jan Dhan tehelkatv 2015-01-16 | Jan Dhan Yojana is one of the world’s biggest financial inclusion programmes, launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to “end financial untouchability”. But Tehelka investigation "Operation Jan Dhan" http://goo.gl/4UQHYq exposes how banks are not allowing people to open Jan Dhan accounts because it does not suit their interests.
Operation Jan Dhan tehelkatv 2015-01-14 | Now released: Another big expose by Tehelka #TehelkaStingOperation : Operation Jan Dhan http://goo.gl/IhJQ6b
Tehelka Jetgate Expose tehelkatv 2014-11-28 | TEHELKA investigation into Jet Airways exposes how VVIPs, politicians and civil aviation officials abuse and misuse power for free tickets worth crores.Go to http://goo.gl/4moieP for more details.
Tehelka Exposé: Operation Hilltop | The Rot In The Assam Rifles tehelkatv 2014-09-26 | Tehelka Exposé: A sting operation at the Assam Rifles HQ exposes massive corruption in the paramilitary forceRead the full story - http://bit.ly/1uIfhCX
