Affairs, 2015 Working at The Cobrapost is not an easy job. The intrepid Rhea Baughman, a journalist, an explorer and an all-round adventurer, is the sort of person who can sniff out a good story a mile away.

Novel, 2010 An epic novel set in ancient Greece from the best-selling author of Bunker 13. This ambitious new novel transports you to the heart of Greece in the time of Alexander the Great. Selecus, son of Nicanor, learns to cope with treachery at a very young age.

fantasy, 1991 A CRACK IN THE MIRROR In this campus novel, Nachiketa Mehra, 19, 6’2″, dark and athletic, much given to introspection and flights of imagination

The Emissary is a fast-paced, entertaining read, and its cliff hanger ending seems to suggest that a sequel is in the offing, one in which, this reviewer predicts, Seleucas Nicanor will become Seleucas the Victor.

One of his books got the Bad Sex in Fiction Award. He has done about 60 sting operations for various television channels, the most infamous of these was Operation West End. His latest book, The Emissary, will be out next weekend. Anirudhha Bahal tells Aditi Phadnis that he revels in bloodless cuts

New Delhi: Aniruddha Bahal has not slept for five straight days. Many in the media call him ‘King of investigations‘ and, true to this monicker, he has been editing perhaps one of the biggest stings of his journalistic career for these last five days, without a break. Bahal was so tired this morning that he declined […]

Investigative journalist Anirudh Bahl”s secret recordings showing HDFC Bank employees facilitating laundering black to white money.

Before we get into what the Cobrapost exposé was all about, let’s tell you what Aniruddha Bahal had to say to the media who’d bothered to show up at his Operation Red Spider press conference. According to Bahal, Cobrapostwas a small media outfit and actually a bigger media house should have undertaken this sting op. Nothing like a […]

The indefatigable King of Sting is back with another yarn of match -fixing in chariot races and gory deaths

It still happens that before shipping off to India, you are prescribed one of VS Naipaul’s subcontinental travel tomes, several hundred pages of sonorous insights meant to be taken along with your bitter, nightmare-inducing anti-malarials. Together with Rushdie’s Indo-Pak partition epic Midnight’s Children, Naipaul’s India books constitute the heavier half of a well-established literary travel […]

Aniruddha Bahal’s Bunker 13 is a drugs, sex and espionage nail-biter on the Indo-Pak border. Published by Faber & Faber of London, the book promises to be one of the biggest fiction titles of the year worldwide. After two years he is ready with a Tehelka of the publishing kind! Investigative journalist Aniruddha Bahal’s first novel Bunker 13 has […]

  Bunker 13 is one exhausting novel. Written by a leading Indian investigative journalist, it is a satirical thriller revolving around military corruption in the Kashmir conflict. But that barely tells the half of it. Imagine Catch-22 rewritten by Hunter S Thompson then grafted on to a plot co-authored by Carl Hiaasen and Tom Clancy […]