- Sankarshan Thakur
Sankarshan Thakur is an Indian print journalist known for his incisive reporting and elegant writing style. He is considered by some Indian journalists to be one of the finest exponents of literary journalism in the country.Fact|date=June 2008 His work seems deeply inspired by
M.J. Akbar , under whom Thakur apprenticed as a journalist for many years. Thakur was, until recently,when|date=June 2008 the Executive Editor ofTehelka weekly , which he helped launch in early 2004. He has now returned to The Telegraph, where he started he journalistic career in 1985, as the newspaper's Roving Editor. He was earlier Associate Editor ofThe Indian Express . Thakur is author of the critically acclaimed "The Making of Laloo Yadav, The Unmaking of Bihar" (ISBN 978-8172234003); the book was recently updated and reprinted by PicadorIndia under the title "Subaltern Sahib: Bihar and the Making of Laloo Yadav". Thakur has coveredBihar andKashmir extensively. Some of his most memorable stories came off theKargil warfront in the summer of 1999. He won thePrem Bhatia award for excellence in political journalism in 2001. In 2003, he won theAppan Menon Fellowship to work on a book on Kashmir which is in the making.External links
* [http://www.tehelka.com/channels/Columns/Column_tehelka/05202005.asp?e_name=Sankarshan%20Thakur&dat=05202005 Sankarshan Thakur's column in Tehelka]
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