Bunker 13: A Novel is a 2003 novel about an Indian journalist working on a weekly news magazine, who is a double agent for the Indian

Research and Analysis Wing

The Research and Analysis Wing is India's external intelligence agency. It was formed in September 1968 after the poor performance of the Intelligence Bureau in the Sino-Indian war of 1962 and the India-Pakistani war of 1965 convinced the then government of India that a specialized, independent...

 and Pakistani

Inter-Services Intelligence

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 military intelligence services. Drugs

DRUGS

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, sex

Sex

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 and espionage

Espionage

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 are the central themes and is the first novel by Aniruddha Bahal

Aniruddha Bahal

Aniruddha Bahal is an Indian journalist, author, founder and editor of the online magazine Cobrapost.com. Born in Allahabad, Bahal worked as a journalist and editor for India Today and Outlook. In 1999, he along with Tarun Tejpal co-founded Tehelka, a news website...

. It achieved international attention and positive reviews.

The first edition was published June 2, 2003 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (ISBN 0374117306).
It received Bad Sex in Fiction Award by Literary Review

Literary Review

Literary Review is a British literary magazine founded in 1979 by Anne Smith, then head of the Department of English at Edinburgh University. Its offices are currently on Lexington Street in Soho, London, and it has a circulation of 44,750. Britain's principal literary monthly, the magazine was...

 magazine.

External links

• James Bond is a Choirboy (Jamie James, Time
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  , June 30 2003)
• Aniruddha Bahal - Creating Another Tehelka (Avinash Kalla, The South Asian, August 2003)