Journalist Sankarshan Thakur will feature in ‘Patrakar: A forum for journalists’ a new, programme series being launched by the International Centre Goa (ICG) on Saturday.
Thakur, Roving Editor, The Telegraph, and author of The Brothers Bihari will be in conversation with Dr Pushkar, Director, ICG.
Addressing media persons in the city on Tuesday, Dr Pushkar said the programme, aimed to bring accomplished journalists to ICG, will engage both with their body of work and with current issues.
“The informal exchange between the moderator and the journalist will be in Q&A format. At the end of the programme, the audience will be invited to participate in the discussion. It is expected that the programme will be of interest to journalists, students and the larger public,” Dr Pushkar said.
Mr Thakur has covered some of the major events in South Asia such as Indira Gandhi’s assassination and consequent violence; Rajiv Gandhi’s 1984 election (and every general election since then); 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.
Thakur’s latest book, The Brothers Bihari (HarperCollins, 2015), a political reckoning of Bihar and its politics under former Chief Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav and incumbent Chief Minister Nitish Kumar will be discussed during the course of the programme.
