Chennai, Apr 16: Senior journalist Shantanu Guha Ray’s latest book ‘The Target’ was released recently. Harish Bijoor, brand guru and founder Harish Bijoor Consults Inc, and MR Venkatesh, financial and legal expert, attended the book launch.
The book takes a look at the NSEL payment crisis and how an innovator has been killed. It explains what went wrong in the payment crisis, and who perpetuated the crisis. More importantly, it asks very pertinent questions, the most important of them being: Could not this crisis be averted?
Speaking on the occasion, Guha Ray said, “My two years of extensive research brought out a alarming story just waiting to be told. It questions some fundamental lacunae in the system, and exposes vested interests that work to malign and punish any threat to a coterie of individuals."
Shantanu scooped the billion-dollar coal scam in 2011, followed by the airport scandal in Delhi the following year. His investigations into the scandal over cervical cancer human trials helped him win the Laadli Award. His work on water-related issues helped him earn the Wash Award.
A recipient of the Ramnath Goenka Award for excellence in journalism, he was also part of an award winning team that probed dangers of tobacco and asbestos across the world for which he won the Washington Press Club Award. His previous books are a biography of the former Indian cricket captain MS Dhoni titled 'Mahi' and 'Fixed'.
