Hacks And Headlines
RASHME SEHGAL
A tantalizing insight into the intrigues, jealousies and pettiness that engulf the world of con men, politicians and journalists who make and break relationships with consummate ease.
Hardback | 140 x 216mm (5.5 x 8.5") | 320 pp
ISBN 8186939202
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The killing of an upper-caste girl, Paro and her lower-caste lover, Jano, acts as a catalyst in a chain of events exposing the controversial world of media and governance. News of the caste killing is broken by veteran journalist Dalip Jha in the Kolkata-based daily The Morning Chronicle. Media baron Vikram Aggarwal, owner of the influential Delhi-based English newspaper, The Indian Sentinel, hijacks his story, and uses it to overthrow the coalition Janata Dal government. The chilling climax adds a twist to the tale, providing a pretext for Vikram Aggarwal to install his uncle as prime minister.
Set in the late 1990s, Hacks and Headlines weaves several strands of different stories, providing a tantalising insight into the intrigues, jealousies and pettiness that engulf the world of con men, politicians and journalists, who make and break relationships with consummate ease.
About the author
Rashme Sehgal started her career in the 1970s as a poet and short-story writer. She moved to journalism and went on to work for several leading newspapers, including The Independent, The Telegraph and The Times of India. Some landmark events she has covered during her journalistic career, spanning fifteen years, have been the exodus of the Kashmiri Pandits from the valley, the destruction of the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya, the Kargil war, and more recently, the Taj corridor scam, thereby helping to save India’s best-known monument.
She has published a book of poems, titled A Home for Bhadrakali and Other Poems. She has also translated a collection of short stories by Premchand. Rashme Sehgal is married to film critic Anil Saari. Hacks and Headlines is her first novel.
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