Former Tehelka Managing Editor Shoma Chowdhary appears before the court at Panaji, Goa to depose in Tarun Tejpal's case of sexually assaulting a woman journalist.
Acclaimed psychoanalyst and writer Sudhir Kakar talks to Shoma Chaudhury about the ambivalences and contradictions within India's sexual attitudes over the millennia
'Despite my immediate and assertive actions in support of you, I stand wrongly defaced and accused of having abandoned the public values I uphold in my work. This leaves me inexpressibly dismayed.'
The aggrieved journalist resigns from Tehelka: 'It is not just Mr Tejpal who has failed me as an employer — but Tehelka that has failed women, employees, journalists and feminists collectively.'
Perhaps it was inevitable that the distressing charges of sexual assault and the ordeal of a young journalist would became fodder in the BJP-Congress war of words as well
