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Antara Dev Sen is a renowned Indian journalist, and the elder daughter of Nobel laureate Amartya Sen and his first wife, Nabanita Dev Sen.

Anatara did her schooling in Calcutta and higher education in Delhi, India. 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.

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. Dev Sen also writes for openDemocracy and is an advisor for Words Without Borders.

As a journalist, Antara wrote a Red Cross report on Angola which involved travelling to rebel territories. Antara has prepared reports on the South Asian tsunami and Indian general elections of 2004. She has also written India, the Eternal Magic (2000).

She is married to journalist Pratik Kanjilal.

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Antara Dev Sen was born on September 21, 1963 in Cambridge, England.


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She was born in Cambridge, England in 1963. She had her schooling in England, Delhi and Calcutta and studied at Smilth College, Massachusets, United States and at Harvard University.
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