India, July 11 -- Chitra Subramaniam, India's foremost investigative journalist, shares personal history behind the Bofors arms deal and her first major investigative report which shook the Rajiv Gandhi-led Congress Government at the Centre.

By Sujata Rajpal

Not many would go beyond the call of duty and dare to dive into murky waters, but Chitra Subramaniam is made from a different mould. She is renowned as the journalist whose ground-breaking expose of the Bofors scandal rocked the nation and helped topple a Government.

Chitra was recently in Mysuru to speak about her newly released book 'Bofors Gate: A Journalist's Pursuit of Truth' at the Mysuru Literature Festival. On behalf of Star of Mysore, Sujata Rajpal caught up with her for a...