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Rana Ayyub : ‘The Bravest Journalist’ who ‘Exposed’ Amit Shah & Modi

Rana Ayyub is an Indian journalist and writer. She worked for Tehelka, but now works independently. [1][2][3]

Rana Ayyub resigned from Tehelka in November 2013, to protest against the organization's handling of a sexual assault charge against its editor-in-chief Tarun Tejpal.[4][5] She has been critical of the Narendra Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government.[4]

Ayyub's investigation of the alleged Gujarat fake encounters has been listed by Outlook magazine as one of the twenty greatest magazine stories of all time across the world [6]She is the author of Gujarat Files: Anatomy of a Cover Up.
In October 2011, Rana Ayyub received the Sanskriti award for excellence in journalism.[8]

Actress Richa Chada claimed to have been inspired by Rana Ayyub, who is also her friend, in 2016 film Chalk n Duster, where she plays a journalist.

In her book Gujarat Files:Anatomy of a Cover Up, Ayyub documented the verbatim transcripts of recordings, made using a concealed recording device, of many bureaucrats and police officers of Gujarat. The recordings were made in the course of an undercover investigation to reveal the views of bureaucrats and police officers on the post-2002 Gujarat riots and Police encounter killings. Ayyub had been posing as Maithili Tyagi, a student of the American Film Institute, having an ideological affinity for the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh's beliefs, to enable her to make the recordings.

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