Oswald Pereira

Oswald Pereira has more than 25 years’ experience in journalism and communications. He has worked for leading Indian publications including the Times of India, Outlook and Financial Express. He was among the founding team of Outlook. He has also been editor of niche publications on infrastructure and defence. He is on the faculty of the Times of India School of Journalism.

His debut novel Beyond the Newsroom was published in January 2007. He has completed writing his second novel. Called Revenge of the Naked Princess, the novel captures the dark age of forced religious conversions in India in the 16th century.

Works

• Beyond the Newsroom {2007}

Beyond the Newsroom

Mumbai’s greatest underworld Don, the Godfather with a Heart of Gold, makes a miraculous escape with a 400-strong police battalion waiting to arrest him right outside his house. So begins Oswald Pereira’s energetic novel Beyond the Newsroom. This book drops the veils on the underhanded deals and Bollywood plots, which never make it to India’s newspapers, and reveal the many hidden aspects of a black-and-white piece of newsprint. Apart from being an exciting and immensely readable piece of ‘fiction’, Beyond the Newsroom features complex, interesting characters who show how nebulous the lines between ‘good’ and ‘bad’ can be.