Sankarshan Thakur

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Sankarshan Thakur is an Indian print journalist.[http://www.thesundayindian.com/en/story/like-father-like-son/96/33955/ Like father, like son]{{cite web |url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1111229/jsp/frontpage/story_14938986.jsp#.UxIlvuOSzpw |title=Everybody fights over nobody's bill |website=www.telegraphindia.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120118034614/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1111229/jsp/frontpage/story_14938986.jsp |archive-date=2012-01-18}} {{cite web |url=http://ibnlive.in.com/news/nitish-is-keeping-his-options-open-at-this-stage-sankarshan-thakur/379630-3.html |title=Nitish is keeping his options open at this stage: Sankarshan Thakur |website=ibnlive.in.com |access-date=17 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140305223207/http://ibnlive.in.com/news/nitish-is-keeping-his-options-open-at-this-stage-sankarshan-thakur/379630-3.html |archive-date=5 March 2014 |url-status=dead}} Thakur currently serves as the Editor of The Telegraph.{{cite web|url=https://news.rediff.com/commentary/2023/oct/01/sankarshan-thakur-is-telegraphs-new-editor/0c2dbd0a5a44d52c7f66b2ca538d71d7|title=Sankarshan Thakur is Telegraphs new editor|website=rediff.com|date=1 October 2023|accessdate=5 May 2024}}

He was born in Bihar in 1962. His work seems deeply inspired by M.J. Akbar, under whom Thakur apprenticed as a journalist for many years. Thakur was the Executive Editor of Tehelka weekly, which he helped launch in early 2004. He has now returned to The Telegraph, where he started his journalistic career in 1985, as the newspaper's Roving Editor. He was earlier Associate Editor of The Indian Express. Thakur has covered Bihar and Kashmir extensively. Some of his most memorable stories came off the Kargil warfront in the summer of 1999. He won the Prem Bhatia award for excellence in political journalism in 2001. In 2003, he won the Appan Menon Fellowship to work on a book on Kashmir which is in the making.{{cite news |title=Appan Menon award |url=http://www.hindu.com/2003/09/18/stories/2003091804011200.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20031027134512/http://www.hindu.com/2003/09/18/stories/2003091804011200.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=October 27, 2003 |work=The Hindu |date= Sep 18, 2003 }}