Sandipan Deb is an IIT-IIM graduate who, after three years in the corporate world, shifted to journalism. He has been the managing editor of Outlook, the editor of The Financial Express and was the founder-editor of Open. He is also the author of The IITians: The story of an Extraordinary Indian Institution and How Its Alumni Are Reshaping the World, which has been translated into Chinese and Korean. He lives in Delhi and is currently working on a novel, The Last War. A collection of his writings over the years can be accessed at: sandipanonline.com
Based in extensive research, including transcripts of FBI-wiretap conversations, Fallen Angel is an insightful account of a remarkable man and the extraordinary events surrounding him: this is the real story of Rajat Gupa, an orphaned immigrant from India who managed to reach dizzying heights in the US corporate sector; Preet Bharara, the Indian-born US prosecutor who made it a personal mission to send Gupa to prison; Jed S. Rakoff, the Gandhian judge; Raj Rajaratnam, the jailed larger-than-life ‘stockster’ who was a stock traders and also the richest Sri Lankan-born man on earth: Danielle Chiesi, the former beauty queen who used sex to pry out corporate secrets; Robert Moffatt, who could have been the CEO of IBM but went to prison instead; and Lloyd C. Blankfein, the chairman of Goldman Sachs, either the smartest or the most evil investment banker on the planet.
