Antara Dev Sen Explained

Antara Dev Sen
Parents:Amartya Sen
Nabaneeta Dev Sen
Spouse:Pratik Kanjilal
Occupation:Writer, journalist
Nationality:Indian
Family:Sen family

Antara Dev Sen (born 1963) is an Indian journalist based in Delhi.

Biography

Antara was born in Cambridge, England and did her schooling in Delhi and later in Kolkata and higher education in India (Kolkata) and United States. Sen also studied at Jadavpur University, Calcutta, Smith College in Massachusetts, United States and at Harvard University. She then joined the Hindustan Times. As a senior editor of the Hindustan Times, she went to Oxford University on a fellowship from the Reuters Foundation. She has also worked with the Ananda Bazaar Patrika Group in Calcutta and with The Indian Express in Delhi, where she was senior assistant editor.

On her return to Delhi, she started The Little Magazine and was its founding editor.[1] The magazine predominantly publishes articles on literary 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.[2]

Sen is also managing trustee of Pratichi, a trust working on education and health.[3] Further, she is a Guest Editor at Indian Literature, Sahitya Akademi's bimonthly English journal.https://sahitya-akademi.gov.in/journals/indianliterature.jsp

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: About TLM. The Little Magazine. 31 January 2006. 7 September 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190907104040/http://www.littlemag.com/about/about.html. live.
  2. Web site: Antara Dev Sen. The DSC prize for South Asian Literature. 27 May 2015. 28 December 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20161228064252/http://dscprize.com/annual-archives/2014-prize/antara-sen.html. dead.
  3. Web site: Trustees of Pratichi Trust. 27 May 2015. 27 May 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150527163913/http://pratichi.org/content/trustees. live.