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Antara Dev Sen
at the Kolkata Literary Meet 2013
Born	1963 (age 60–61) Cambridge, England
Nationality	British
Occupation(s)	writer, journalist
Spouse	Pratik Kanjilal
Parent(s)	Amartya Sen Nabaneeta Dev Sen

Antara Dev Sen (born 1963) is a British–Indian journalist.

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. 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.

Sen is also managing trustee of Pratichi, a trust working on education and health. Further, she is a Guest Editor at Indian Literature, Sahitya Akademi's bimonthly English journal.

References

1. "About TLM". The Little Magazine.
2. "Antara Dev Sen". The DSC prize for South Asian Literature.
3. "Trustees of Pratichi Trust".

External links

• The Little Magazine
• openDemocracy
• Words Without Borders

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