Antara Dev Sen (born 1963) is a British-born Indian journalist based in Delhi.

Early life and education

Antara was born in

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, England and did her schooling in Delhi and later in Kolkata and higher education in India (Kolkata) and United States. Sen also studied at

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, Calcutta,

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, U.S. and at

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Career

She then joined the ''

Hindustan Times ''Hindustan Times'' is an Indian English language, English-language daily newspaper based in Delhi. It is the flagship publication of HT Media Limited, an entity controlled by the Birla family, and is owned by Shobhana Bhartia, the daughter o ...

''. As a senior

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of the ''Hindustan Times'', she went to

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on a fellowship from the

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Foundation. She has also worked with the '' Ananda Bazaar Patrika'' Group in Calcutta and with ''

The Indian Express ''The Indian Express'' is an English-language Indian daily newspaper founded in 1932 by P. Varadarajulu Naidu. It is headquartered in Noida, owned by the ''Indian Express Group''. It was later taken over by Ramnath Goenka. In 1999, eight y ...

'' in Delhi, where she was senior assistant editor. On her return to Delhi, she started '' The Little Magazine'' and was its founding

. The magazine predominantly publishes articles on

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themes relating to South Asia. She is also a literary critic and translator, a newspaper columnist and commentator on the media, society, politics, culture and development. She has edited several books including the TLM Short Stories from South Asia series. Sen is also managing trustee of Pratichi, a trust working on education and health. Further, she is a Guest Editor at

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, Sahitya Akademi's bimonthly English journa

References

External links

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