Dosco writers

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A number of Doscos have become novelists, poets, historians, essayists and journalists (both print and television). In many cases, writing has been a pleasurable, sometimes lucrative, sideline while a Dosco made his principal career in another line of work: for example, Mani Shankar Aiyar and Naveen Patnaik are principally politicians. In other cases, as with Vikram Seth for example, writing has been the Dosco's career.

The following categorization of Doscos is not absolute by any means, and perhaps not entirely accurate: Karan Thapar, for example, is perhaps equally well-known for his written pieces as for his television talk show. And while many of these writers are well-regarded, the literary critic M. Prabha (The Waffle of the Toffs) and the writer Arundhati Roy have argued that Dosco writers are more representative of an urban elite than the "average" Indian with rural roots.[1]

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[edit] Poets & Novelists

  • Aamir Ali (Conflict, Via Geneva etc.)
  • Vimal Bhagat (Stage Whispers)
  • Ashok Chakravarti
  • Pushpinder Singh Chopra (Touching the Sky etc.)
  • Kam Afzal Faruki
  • Amitav Ghosh
  • Aminuddin Khan (A Shift in the Wind)
  • Saurab Saklani
  • Samit Sawhny (All the World's a Spittoon)
  • Aftab Seth (Pillars of a Landscape)
  • Vikram Seth
  • Ardashir Vakil

[edit] Historians, Essayists & Academic Writers

  • Mani Shankar Aiyar
  • Kanti Bajpai
  • PM Das (Storms and Sunsets in the Himalaya)
  • Jagjit Singh Dulat (Partners in Victory)
  • Siddharth Dube (In the Land of Poverty; Sex, Lies and Aids)
  • Ramchandra Guha
  • Rohit Kumar Handa (Policy for India's Defense; Comrade Sahib)
  • Prem Shankar Jha (The Perilous Road to the Market; Kashmir 1947: The Origins of a Dispute)
  • Deepak Lal (eleven books on economics)
  • Shomit Mitter (Systems of Rehearsal)
  • Naveen Patnaik
  • Vijay Prashad (Untouchable Freedom; Karma of Brown Folk)

[edit] Print Journalists

[edit] Television Journalists

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