Tarun J Tejpal, 42, was brought up all over India, as his father was an army officer. He studied economics in Chandigarh and became a journalist in the 1980s, working for India Today magazine and helping to found the rival Outlook. As the creator of India Ink, he became the first publisher of Arundhati Roy. In 2000, he created Tehelka.com, the online magazine that in 2001 broke a story about bribery in defence contracts that led to the resignation of the Indian minister of defence. He then raised the money to establish Tehelka as a weekly newspaper, and is now its editor-in-chief. In 2002, he was named by Business Week as a leader of change in Asia. Tejpal’s debut novel, The Alchemy of Desire, is published this week by Picador. He lives in New Delhi with his wife and two daughters.

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