Tarun Tejpal's mother passes away
May 19, 2014  10:24
Tehelka founder editor Tarun Tejpal's mother Shakuntala Tejpal passed away after being ill for sometime, his lawyer said on Monday.

She was 87.

Shakuntala was suffering from brain tumour and was living in Tejpal's house at Moira in North Goa. 

"She expired last evening at Tejpal's Goa residence. The decision is yet to be taken whether the final rites would be conducted in Goa or Delhi," Tejpal's lawyer Sandip Kapoor told PTI, adding that the family members will take a call on it. 

She had been admitted to a hospital in Mapusa but was later discharged.
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