Tuhin Sinha

Last updated
Tuhin Sinha
Tuhin Sinha at Orange City Lit Fest.jpg
Tuhin Sinha in 2019
BornTuhin Amar Sinha
Jamshedpur, Jharkhand
OccupationWriter
LanguageEnglish, Hindi
NationalityIndian
CitizenshipIndia
Genre Political thrillers, romance, historical novels, non-fiction
Notable worksOf Love and Politics
The Edge of Desire
Daddy
The Legend of Birsa Munda
The Great Tribal Warriors of Bharat

Tuhin Amar Sinha is an Indian author of political thrillers, romance novels and non-fiction works. [1] Since 2016, he has been a spokesperson for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). [1] [2]

Contents

Life

Sinha was born and brought up in Jamshedpur, Jharkhand. [1] [3] He completed his schooling at Loyola School and is a commerce graduate from Hindu College, University of Delhi. [4] Sinha worked for a year in TV ad sales. [3] He moved to Mumbai to find work in the entertainment industry. [3] Having tried unsuccessfully to become an actor, he took a scriptwriting course and began writing for TV; [5] then turned to books, debuting with That Thing Called Love in 2007. [3] [6] This was followed by 22 yards in 2008 [6] and Of Love and Politics in 2010. [7] Sinha proceeded to write political thrillers and romance novels as well as Daddy, a non-fiction book on parenting (2015), [8] and two books on politics, one with former BJP president Nitin Gadkari. [9] [10] In 2021, he published the historical novel The Legend of Birsa Munda (2021), a dramatized account of the life of 19th-century religious leader and tribal revolutionary Birsa Munda, co-written with Ankita Verma, [11] [12] followed in 2022 by the non-fiction book The Great Tribal Warriors of Bharat, co-authored with Ambalika. [13]

On 31 January 2014, Sinha joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP); in December 2016, he was appointed spokesperson for Mumbai region. [1] Sinha was subsequently included in the national media team of BJP. [14] In 2016–2017, Sinha was on the Steering Committee of the national #HaveaSafeJourney (#HASJ) awareness campaign, a road safety initiative by the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways. [15] [16] In 2017, Sinha filed a plea against Rahul Gandhi, then vice-president of the Congress Party, in the Delhi High Court, alleging that Gandhi had violated the Special Protection Group Act by giving his security detail the slip; the court refused to rule on the matter, saying security was a matter for the government. [17]

In 2022 Sinha sued the Wikimedia Foundation following the deletion of the wikipedia page about him, [18] the article was recreated soon after. Of the suit Sinha said “[T]his is a fight against the Western deep state.” [19]

Reception

Reviewing for The Hindu , Reshmi Kulkarni found Of Love and Politics to be a "more head-spinning than heady" political thriller with occasional splashes of romance. [7] Reviewing The Edge of Desire, Kulkarni found the work to be a one-time-read that suffered from the intense cramming of a multitude of political affairs. [20] Sayoni Aiyar for News18.com deplored how Sinha's female lead character defined herself entirely by relationships with men in her life. [21] Reviewing for The Deccan Chronicle , Omkar Sane panned Let The Reason be Love as an epitome of mediocrity and predictability. [22] Sinha's non-fiction book on childcare, Daddy (2015), was described in The New Indian Express as written for "new-generation fathers." [23]

Bibliography

Fiction

Non-fiction

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Birsa Munda</span> Indian tribal freedom fighter and religious leader (1875–1900)

Birsa Munda was an Indian tribal independence activist, and folk hero who belonged to the Munda tribe. He spearheaded a tribal religious millenarian movement that arose in the Bengal Presidency in the late 19th century, during the British Raj, thereby making him an important figure in the history of the Indian independence movement. The revolt mainly concentrated in the Munda belt of Khunti, Tamar, Sarwada and Bandgaon.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jharkhand Mukti Morcha</span> Political party in India

Jharkhand Mukti Morcha is a political party in the Indian state of Jharkhand which was founded by Binod Bihari Mahato. Shibu Soren is the president of the JMM. JMM is also an influential political party in the state of Odisha and parts of neighbouring of states. Its election symbol for Jharkhand is Bow and Arrow.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Kariya Munda</span> Indian politician

Kariya Munda is an Indian politician who served as Deputy Speaker of the 15th Lok Sabha. He has been a minister in the Government of India, serving in the governments led by the Janata Party in 1977 and by Bhartiya Janata Party from 1999 onwards.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Madhu Koda</span> Indian politician (born 1971)

Madhu Koda is an Indian politician who had served as the Chief Minister of Jharkhand from 2006 to 2008. He was sworn in as the fifth Chief Minister of Jharkhand on 18 September 2006, and remained in office until he resigned on 27 August 2008.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Nitin Gadkari</span> Indian politician (born 1957)

Nitin Jairam Gadkari is an Indian politician from Maharashtra who is serving as the 40th Minister of Road Transport & Highways in the Government of India since 2024. He is also the longest serving Minister for Road Transport & Highways, currently in his tenure for over ten years (2014-present), and is the only person to serve under a single portfolio for three consecutive terms. Gadkari earlier served as the President of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from 2009 to 2013.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Bihar Legislative Assembly</span> Lower house of the bicameral legislature of the Indian state of Bihar

The Bihar Legislative Assembly also known as the Bihar Vidhan Sabha is the lower house of the bicameral Bihar Legislature of the state of Bihar in India. The first state elections were held in 1952.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Organisation of the Bharatiya Janata Party</span> Structure of Bharatiya Janata Party

The organisation of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is based upon the Constitution of the Bharatiya Janata Party. The organisation of the BJP is strictly hierarchical, with the president being the highest authority in the party. The party is considered to be a cadre-based party that draws from the Hindutva-based ideology of its parent organisation, the RSS.

Kumar Suresh Singh (1935–2006) commonly known as K. S. Singh, was an Indian Administrative Service officer, who served as a Commissioner of Chhotanagpur (1978–80) and Director-General of the Anthropological Survey of India. He is known principally for his oversight and editorship of the People of India survey and for his studies of tribal history.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Hemant Soren</span> 5th and current Chief Minister of Jharkhand

Hemant Soren is an Indian politician from Jharkhand, who is currently serving as Chief Minister of Jharkhand since 4 July 2024. He also served as the 5th Chief Minister of Jharkhand from 2019 to 2024 and from 2013 to 2014. He is also the working president of the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha, a political party in Jharkhand. He represents Barhait constituency in the Jharkhand Legislative Assembly since 2014 and has represented Dumka twice — from 2019 to 2020, and from 2009 to 2014. He was also the Deputy Chief Minister of Jharkhand from 2010 to 2013, Leader of the Opposition, Jharkhand Legislative Assembly from 2014 to 2019 and member of Rajya Sabha from Jharkhand, from 2009 to 2010.

Vijay Jolly is a politician of the state of Delhi belonging to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sudheendra Kulkarni</span> Indian politician and columnist

Sudheendra Kulkarni is an Indian politician and columnist.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Meenakshi Lekhi</span> Indian politician

Meenakshi Lekhi is an Indian politician who served as the Minister of State for External Affairs and Culture of India from 7 July 2021 till 10 June 2024. She was a Member of Parliament from New Delhi Parliamentary constituency in the 16th and 17th Lok Sabha from the Bharatiya Janata Party. She is also a lawyer in the Supreme Court of India.

Anjali Anish Damania is an Indian anti-corruption activist and politician. She was the convener of Maharashtra state unit of Aam Admi Party (AAP). During 2011–12, she exposed corruption in the Kondhane dam project through RTI queries. She came into the limelight in 2012, after she accused the Bharatiya Janata Party President Nitin Gadkari of having a business partnership with the Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar. She unsuccessfully contested 2014 Lok Sabha elections from Nagpur, as an AAP candidate against Gadkari. However, in March 2015, she quit the AAP amid allegations of horse trading against national convener and Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal. She has filed several PIL's against powerful politicians like Chhagan Bhujbal and Eknath Khadse. On 2 June 2016 she went on an indefinite hunger strike demanding the resignation of Eknath Khadse, which resulted in Khadse's resignation from the position of Maharashtra state Revenue Minister.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Vinay Sahasrabuddhe</span> Indian politician

Vinay Prabhakar Sahasrabuddhe is an Indian politician. He was a Member of the Parliament of India and represented the state of Maharashtra in the Rajya Sabha from 2016-22. He has also served as National Vice President of Bharatiya Janata Party from August 2014 – September 2020. Dr. Sahasrabuddhe, since 2018 has been appointed as President of Indian Council for Cultural Relations. He is known as a political scholar and an occasional columnist. He is the Vice Chairman of Rambhau Mhalgi Prabodhini, a research and training academy for elected representatives & social activists. As Member of Parliament, he has also served as the Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Education, Women, Children and Youth & Sports. He is regarded as one of the foremost intellectuals from the BJP, the ruling party in the Central Government and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a Hindu Nationalist organization.

Ghar Wapsi is the programme of religious conversion to Hinduism from Islam, Christianity, and other religions in India conducted by Indian Hindu nationalist organisations Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP), Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and their allies. The term owes to the Hindu nationalist ideology that all people of India are ancestrally Hindu and, hence, conversion to Hinduism is one of "returning home" to their ancestral roots.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Droupadi Murmu</span> 15th President of India since 2022

Droupadi Murmu is an Indian politician who has served as the 15th president of India since 2022. She won the 2022 presidential election as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate. She is the first person belonging to a tribal community and also the second woman after Pratibha Patil to hold the office. She is also the youngest person to occupy the post and the first president born in independent India.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Kanhaiya Kumar</span> Indian political activist and politician (born 1987)

Kanhaiya Kumar is an Indian political activist who served as the president of the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union and leader of the All India Students Federation (AISF). He served as National Executive Council member of Communist Party of India. He joined Indian National Congress on 28 September 2021 and has been appointed as the AICC in-charge of the National Student's Union of India.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Rakesh Sinha</span> Member of Parliament Rajya Sabha

Rakesh Sinha is a nominated member of the Rajya Sabha since July 2018, the upper house of the Parliament of India. He is the member of Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP)and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh(RSS). Sinha authored the biography of the founder of Rashtriya Syayamsewak Sangh (RSS), Dr K. B. Hedgewar. Sinha was the founding Honorary director of India Policy Foundation (IPF), a Delhi based think tank. He is an alumnus of the Hindu College, Delhi University.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Yashvardhan Kumar Sinha</span> Indian diplomat

Yashvardhan Kumar Sinha is a retired Indian diplomat who belongs to the Indian Foreign Service. He is the former High Commissioner of India to the United Kingdom. He was sworn in as Central Information Commissioner on 1 January 2019 served the until 3 October 2023.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">2022 Gujarat Legislative Assembly election</span> Legislative Assembly election in Indian state of Gujarat

Legislative Assembly elections were held in Gujarat from 1 to 5 December 2022 in two phases, to elect 182 members of 15th Gujarat Legislative Assembly. The votes were counted and the results were declared on 8 December 2022.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 IANS (29 December 2016). "Bestseller author Tuhin Sinha becomes new Mumbai BJP spokesman". Business Standard . Retrieved 22 October 2022.
  2. ↑ Goswamy, Ruchika (23 September 2019). "Pune International Literature Festival: 'Is India a Majoritarian State?' — BJP, Cong slug it out". The Indian Express . Retrieved 22 October 2022.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 Staff (28 May 2012). "'Writing for TV is lucrative, but very restricting'". Rediff . Retrieved 23 October 2022.
  4. ↑ Bose, Antara (15 June 2010). "Loyola alumnus to release third book". The Telegraph . Retrieved 22 October 2022.
  5. ↑ Staff (28 April 2005). "Sahara One bags RAPA award for Phir Se". Indian Television. Archived from the original on 23 October 2022. Retrieved 25 October 2022.
  6. 1 2 Staff (6 November 2008). "Beyond 22 Yards". The Hindu. Retrieved 23 October 2022.
  7. 1 2 3 Kulkarni, Reshma (4 December 2010). "Twists and turns". The Hindu. ISSN   0971-751X . Retrieved 22 October 2022.
  8. ↑ Bhardwaj, Meera (13 January 2015). "The New-age Father". The New Indian Express . Retrieved 23 October 2022.
  9. 1 2 Staff (30 October 2013). "Print Pick". The Hindu. Retrieved 23 October 2022.
  10. 1 2 Express News Service (7 December 2018). "Will run bulldozer over contractor if roads found in bad shape: Nitin Gadkari". The Indian Express. Retrieved 27 October 2022.
  11. ↑ Our Bureau, PTI (24 March 2022). "Book on Birsa Munda is befitting tribute to freedom fighter". The Telegraph . Retrieved 22 October 2022.
  12. ↑ Staff (20 March 2021). "Cover of Tuhin A. Sinha's 'The Legend of Birsa Munda' revealed". The Times of India. Retrieved 24 December 2021.
  13. 1 2 Anand, Arun (6 August 2022). "Right Word | Remembering the great tribal warriors of Bharat who couldn't make it to our history books". Firstpost. Retrieved 24 October 2022.
  14. ↑ TNN (2 February 2019). "Literature festival takes off with tributes to Atal Bihari Vajpayee, V S Naipaul". The Times of India. Retrieved 23 October 2022.
  15. ↑ Bose, Antara (28 December 2017). "Turning pages on road safety". The Telegraph. Retrieved 23 October 2022.
  16. ↑ TNN (12 October 2017). "Micro Review: Have a Safe Journey is an eye-opening anthology on road safety". The Times of India. Retrieved 23 October 2022.
  17. ↑ Staff (22 November 2017). "Delhi High Court rejects plea against Rahul Gandhi". The Hindu. PTI. ISSN   0971-751X . Retrieved 24 December 2021.
  18. ↑ Mishra, Sukriti; Shukla, Agatha. "Delhi Court Summons Wikimedia Foundation Over Deletion Of Wikipedia Profile Of BJP Spokesperson Tuhin A. Sinha". lawbeat.in. Lawbeat. Retrieved 19 October 2024.
  19. ↑ Hunt, Pete. "Will Indian Courts Tame Wikipedia?". thediplomat.com. The Diplomat. Retrieved 19 October 2024.
  20. ↑ Kulkarni, Reshma S. (1 July 2012). "Heady cocktail". The Hindu. ISSN   0971-751X . Retrieved 22 October 2022.
  21. 1 2 Aiyar, Sayoni (25 May 2012). "'Edge of Desire' mirrors growing frenzy in politics". News18 .
  22. 1 2 Sane, Omkar (10 January 2016). "Let The Reason Be Love". Deccan Chronicle . Retrieved 23 October 2022.
  23. ↑ Bhardwaj, Meera (13 January 2015). "The New-age Father". The New Indian Express . Retrieved 23 October 2022.
  24. ↑ Staff (6 November 2008). "Beyond 22 Yards". The Hindu. Retrieved 23 October 2022.
  25. ↑ Staff (15 December 2013). "New Arrivals". The Pioneer . Retrieved 22 October 2022.
  26. ↑ Staff (16 March 2018). "Author Tuhin A Sinha: We are all suckers for romance". Hindustan Times . Retrieved 7 November 2022.
  27. ↑ Swaroop, Ananya (1 December 2021). "Eight Books of 2021 Recommended By Notable Authors To Fill Up Your Literary Diet". Man's World . Retrieved 22 October 2022.
  28. ↑ Our Bureau, PTI (24 March 2022). "Book on Birsa Munda is befitting tribute to freedom fighter". The Telegraph . Retrieved 22 October 2022.

This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.