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Sankarshan Thakur

@SankarshanT

Editor of The Telegraph of Calcutta. Itinerant reporter-writer. Mother tongue: Maithili अग्ने नय सुपथा राये

 Delhi. Calcutta. Elsewhere
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Joined November 2012
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A piece of mine from 2002. on where Narendra Modi might head from Gujarat. sankarshanthakur.in/2019/03/…
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Why the key character of wars is ugliness and why memorials often don’t do justice to their memory. A flashback from a quarter of a century ago. telegraphindia.com/life/if-o…
If on a buried warfield, a memory alive

If on a buried warfield, a memory alive

SETTINGS | To erase the debris of wars is to deny their essential ugliness

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Irredeemably sad to learn that Tarun Bhartiya @LudditeNed is no more. What a fine mind, what a multifaceted person. What a loss. Such are the brutal uncertainties of life. telegraphindia.com/amp/opini…
Distant thunder

Distant thunder

STATE OF PLAY | For decades now, and for a succession of govts in New Delhi, Manipur has been about subcontracting power to favoured franchisees and leaving them with the mess of holding it

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The Age of Darkness Shining What does the victory of @realDonaldTrump tell us about the citizenry? My @ttindia @opinion_tt column telegraphindia.com/opinion/d…
Darkness shining

Darkness shining

Such is the man the largest democracy on earth has elected, a man who embodies affront to the most fundamental values of what we understand when humanity and civilisation are mentioned

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#OPINION | Bihar has much to learn, a long way to go. Its leaders alone cannot carry the burden of that journey, its people will have to: Sankarshan Thakur @SankarshanT #Bihar #Nawada #LaluPrasadYadav #NitishKumar #Dalits #StateofPlay telegraphindia.com/opinion/f…
Feudal heart

Feudal heart

Another layer of feudal hierarchy — and excess — may have been inaugurated in the state — politically more empowered and economically prosperous Dalits oppressing ‘lesser’ Dalits

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Tributes and love. What an endearing and affable person, no longer among us, alas. Farewell, Sitaram Yechury. 🙏🏻telegraphindia.com/7-days/wh…
Whatever Happened, Comrades?

Whatever Happened, Comrades?

CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury talks to Sankarshan Thakur

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“The waters, our waters, aren’t still, they remain on the boil, let nobody be persuaded otherwise. They are more on the boil than earlier; this summer’s election verdict stoked the fires under them” My @ttindia column today @opinion_tt telegraphindia.com/opinion/d…
Dust and jagged lines

Dust and jagged lines

It will take more than just the enhanced acreage of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha and town criers heralding the return of liberal pluralism to rein in Modi’s authoritarian unilateralism

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Azaadi Mubarak, Doston! 🇮🇳
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When will you ever get to see again these two great sportsmen - Rafael Nadal and Carlos Alcaraz - play alongside in a competitive game of tennis? #paris2024olympics
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Why is Bengal chief minister @MamataOfficial in Delhi? My first hand report @ttindia a little later this morning.
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Dilli Solo: Mamata Banerjee tears into Niti Aayog, says ‘it’s useless, must be stopped’

Dilli Solo: Mamata Banerjee tears into Niti Aayog, says ‘it’s useless, must be stopped’

'I want the Planning Commission to be revived; the Planning Commission was among the ideas of Netaji Subhas Bose, it was a good thing, there was department-wise discussion of issues, it should come...

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Mamata Banerjee is in Delhi to be Mamata Banerjee, ride her own horse. My report @ttindia telegraphindia.com/india/dil…
Dilli Solo: Mamata Banerjee tears into Niti Aayog, says ‘it’s useless, must be stopped’

Dilli Solo: Mamata Banerjee tears into Niti Aayog, says ‘it’s useless, must be stopped’

'I want the Planning Commission to be revived; the Planning Commission was among the ideas of Netaji Subhas Bose, it was a good thing, there was department-wise discussion of issues, it should come...

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And Idea Aflame. #Kashmir and the meaning of being Engineer Rashid. My column State of Play telegraphindia.com/opinion/a…
An idea aflame

An idea aflame

As Jammu and Kashmir drifts towards a promised assembly election, it cannot be that many more, especially in the Valley, wouldn’t be tempted to embrace the Rashid example

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