He has many achievements to his credit. He was presented Award for Excellence in Journalism by the International Press Institute's India Chapter Award.
Business Week named him as amongst the 50 leaders at the forefront of change in Asia and has also been named amongst, “India's 50 Most Powerful People 2009 but with this recent sexual assault case against him all his achievements are at stake.
Think 2013, the brainstorming festival organised by Tejpal in Goa during which the alleged incident took place, had a distinguished set of speakers: Robert De Niro, VS Naipual, Amitabh Bachchan, Javed Akhtar, Farooq Abdullah, Nandan Nilekani, Vinod Rai and Medha Patkar, to name a few, and even Abdul Salam Zaeef, a founder member of the Taliban.
The festival was organized by a firm Thinkworks. Thinkworks was originally registered as Babbler Books in February 2010.
It is owned by Tejpal, his sister, Neena Sharma, and Tehelka's managing editor, Shoma Chaudhury. Tejpal owns 40,000 shares, or 80 per cent of the company, while Sharma and Chaudhury hold 10 per cent each.
