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Chandan Mitra is editor and managing director of The Pioneer newspaper in Delhi and an independently elected Member of the Rajya Sabha (BJP-supported) or Upper House of the Indian Parliament.
Mitra was educated at La Martiniere College, Kolkata and graduated in Economics from St. Stephen's College, Delhi University where he was in the same year asShashi Tharoor and Swapan Dasgupta, and was Tharoor's Chancellor when Tharoor was elected as President of the College Union. Mitra was a distinguished debater and a noted Marxist but later became a right wing supporter later. After graduating, Mitra did his MA and M.Phil in History at Delhi University also. He taught for a short while at Hansraj College. He then went to Magdalen College in Oxford University where he did his Doctorate in Modern Indian history his doctoral thesis being on the Indian freedom movement in Eastern UP and Bihar.
He started his career in journalism as an Assistant Editor with The Statesman in Kolkata before he moved to the Times of India in Delhi. Following this he joined The Sunday Observer and went on to become Editor of the paper which was funded by Reliance Industries. After Reliance stopped funding, Mitra moved to the Hindustan Times as Executive Editor. However, after he was sidelined by V.N Narayanan who took over as Editor, Mitra left to join The Pioneer and eventually bought control of the newspaper from the Thapar family after industrialist Gautam Thapar decided to cut his losses. In an interesting twist of fate, it was The Pioneer which published a damning article which exposed Narayanan as a plagiariser. Mitra has somewhat turned around the paper and ventured into other areas, including a media school. He is often seen on CNN-IBN, an english news channel, being called to give a viewpoint of right wing side.
He is married to Shobori Ganguly. He has two sons from a previous marriage. His elder son, Kushan Mitra, is also journalist.
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