The endangered editor

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A recent feature by The Caravan magazine titled The Network Effect talked about how a leading media group was aligning itself to centre-right politics that seems to have caught the imagination of urban India. Amid a highly charged political environment over the past six months, a number of senior journalists, many in their young 40s, have seen their roles change. Some "raised hell"; others quietly moved on. The unprecedented upheaval on Fleet Street in the run-up to a bitterly fought election has encouraged even Tehelka's former editor Tarun Tejpal, who has been arrested for an alleged sexual assault, to cry political conspiracy. Business Standard looks at some recent exits