Hyderabad, April 1 -- A Journalist's Pursuit of Truth, was released recently to rave reviews. It brings back spotlight on her highlighting her role in the expose. Chitra Subramaniam, in Geneva for another story, took up in a big way the Swedish Radio broadcast on April 16, 1987, that bribes were paid by manufacturers of Bofors guns to Indian politicians and officials of the Defence Ministry, in order to win the contract for sale of howitzer guns to India.

In the light of the Swedish Radio broadcast, she started her reportage from Geneva, when she was attached with The Hindu, as a stringer. This triggered a chain of events. Mr Clean image of the then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi was shattered and eventually he lost the General Election in ...