Prabhu Chawla hits back

IN Media Watch Briefs | 29/06/2015

Prominent people linked to Lalit Modi could learn a thing or two about aggressive comebacks from the New Indian Express Editorial Director Prabhu Chawla who last week was named as one of the people who testified in support of Lalit Modi in London three years ago. In his Sunday column Power & Politics (June 28) Chawla hits out at those "authors, promoters and hawkers of new politics, and even newer journalism," whom he calls "faux-intellectuals and neo-moralists" who have been living off each day's revelations regarding the former cricket czar. And explains why he saw fit to go to London at his own expense to testify.

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