Aniruddha Bahal

Aniruddha Bahal is the founder and editor-in-chief of Cobrapost an Indian news website.

[1][2] -Crack in the Mirror (1991) -The Emissary (2010) -The Adventures of Rhea: The Cobrapost Affair (2015) Bahal was born in Allahabad and is a university graduate.

He moved to Delhi in 1991 where he began his journalistic career by writing and editing some articles at the Outlook and the India Today.

[3] In 1999, he co-founded Tehelka.com – a news website, with Tarun Tejpal and another colleague from the Outlook after "an investor with deep pockets" agreed to underwrite their startup, according to the Independent.

[2] Its "hipster-slang-spitting antihero", states an article on Bahal in the UK-based newspaper the Independent, "shoots smack, snorts speed, runs guns, administers date-rape drugs" and a scene therein went on to win the Literary Review's Bad Sex in Fiction Award.