Book Review: NDTV Frauds by Sree Iyer

While in many ways an eye-opener about the machinations of the men behind the massive scams at NDTV, 'NDTV Frauds' is a nerve-grating read. Iyer descends often into repetition and offers very little actual proof for the government/ ministerial backing of the channel, except for strong circumstantial evidence. The premise itself is strong and perhaps required a much better author than Iyer's ilk to write a book on. In the hands of a better author/ journalist (think 'Gujarat Files'), this book would have been an excellent read. In Iyer's hands, it is a shadow of a book, even though it does have eye-opening revelations about the workings of the Lutyens Delhi journalist-bureaucrat-politician nexus that benefited the Roys so much.