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 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.