Amaresh Misra

Amaresh Misra is an Indian writer, author and historian. He is convener of the Anti Communal Front in Uttar Pradesh state for Indian National Congress.
During his college years, Misra was a student leader of the radical Left CPI-ML (Liberation) party in Allahabad University. He co-wrote the script for the movie Bullet Raja.
Amaresh Misra is a proponent of several conspiracy theories. He has claimed that the 2008 Mumbai attacks were organized jointly by the CIA, Mossad and RSS. According to him, the Intelligence Bureau was behind the killing of the Mumbai Police's Anti-Terrorist Squad chief Hemant Karkare. He has also blamed BJP and RSS for the 2012 Assam violence, and MNS for the Azad Maidan riots. In 2014, Misra was arrested by Lucknow police from Gurgaon, for threatening to kill Narendra Modi and posting inflammatory comments against RSS on social media sites.

The Urdu Press Club of India awarded Amaresh with the Jasarat Award in 2007.

• Lucknow: Fire of Grace: The Story of its Renaissance, Revolution and the Aftermath (Delhi: Harper Collins, 1999) ISBN 978-8172232887
• The Minister’s Wife (a novel—Penguin, 2002) ISBN 978-0143028161
• Mangal Pandey: The True Story of an Indian Revolutionary (Delhi: Rupa, 2005)
• War of Civilizations: India AD 1857, Vols 1 and 2 (Delhi: Rupa, 2007)