Tehelka editor Tarun Tejpal steps aside after sexual assault charges

Tarun Tejpal, founder and editor-in-chief of the weekly magazine Tehelka stepped down from the post for six months following the allegations of sexual assault and intimidation from a junior woman colleague. In an email to the magazine’s managing editor Shoma Chaudhury, Tejpal wrote, “The last few days have been most testing, and I squarely take the blame for this. A bad lapse of judgment, an awful misreading of the situation, have led to an unfortunate incident that rails against all we believe in and fight for.”