Sankarshan Thakur is the Delhi-based Roving Editor of The Telegraph. He was born in Patna and studied political science at Hindu College, Delhi. Sankarshan began his career with Sunday Magazine in 1984 and has been Associate Editor of The Telegraph and the Indian Express and Executive Editor of Tehelka. He has covered some of the major events in South Asia and beyond such as Indira Gandhi’s assassination and consequent violence; Rajiv Gandhi’s 1984 election (and every general election since then); the first Reagan-Gorbachev Summit, Washington D.C., 1987; the return of democracy to Pakistan, with Benazir Bhutto’s accession as prime minister (and the two elections that followed); the fall of Kabul to the Mujahedin; militancy and politics in Kashmir since 1989; and the 1999 Kargil war. Sankarshan is the author of The Making of Laloo Yadav. The Unmaking of Bihar (HarperCollins, 2006); Single Man (HarperCollins, 2014), a political biography of Nitish Kumar; and The Brothers Bihari (HarperCollins, 2015), a political reckoning of Bihar and its politics under Lalu Yadav and Nitish Kumar. He was awarded the Prem Bhatia Award for excellence in political journalism in 2002 and won the Appan Menon Memorial Award in 2004 for a book project on Kashmir. 

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