Amaresh Misra

Amaresh Misra is an Indian writer and well known revolutionary. He was the convener of the Anti Communal Front in Uttar Pradesh state for Indian National Congress for 4 years till 2014.

During his college years, Misra was a student leader of the Left CPI-ML (Liberation) party in the University of Allahabad. He co-wrote the script for the movie Bullet Raja.

He has started the movement to restore India's pride in Freedom Fighters contributions to its journey to independence.

Controversies
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 wanted to rewrite modern Indian History to reflect Indian perspective instead of the British accounts.

He unsuccessfully contested the 2009 Loksabha elections from Lucknow on the ticket of Ulema Council. He joined CONGRESS party for 5 years after that. Today, he runs a peasant based Kisan Kranti Dal and Mangal Pandey Sena based in Uttar Pradesh. His YouTube channel has more theories.

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

Aligarh Group with renowned historian Irfan Habib awarded him for historical work in 2022

Publications

 * Lucknow: Fire of Grace: The Story of its Renaissance, Revolution and the Aftermath (Delhi: HarperCollins, 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)