Sankarshan Thakur, the Editor of The Telegraph and one of the pioneers of literary journalism in the country, died at a Gurgaon hospital on Monday after a prolonged illness. Subsequently, Thakur became Executive Editor at Tehelka before he returned to The Telegraph in 2009 as its National Affairs Editor and later became the Editor of the newspaper. His monographs on the Kargil war and honour killings in Uttar Pradesh, along with his three books — ‘Subaltern Saheb’, a political biography of former Bihar chief minister Lalu Prasad, ‘Single Man: The Life and Times of Nitish Kumar of Bihar’, and ‘The Brothers Bihari’, a political diptych on Lalu and Nitish — are highly acclaimed and widely cited.
Author: Express News Service
Published at: 2025-09-08 21:30:32
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