Pran Chopra (January 1921 – 22 December 2013) was an Indian journalist, political analyst and newspaper editor. Chopra was born in 1921 in

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. He began his career as a journalist in 1941, with the ''

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.Pran Chopra, Political Analyst and Former Chief Editor, the Statesman
SAGE Publications. In his journalism career spanning over 60 years, Chopra worked for ''

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'' and produced two magazines, ''The Citizen'' and ''The Weekend Review'', but is most commonly associated with '' The Statesman'' after he became the newspaper's first Indian chief editor after its transfer from British ownership in the early 1960s. He was fired from ''The Statesman'' in the late 1960s for refusing to reflect the attitude of the paper's management to the

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government in West Bengal. From the late 1990s, he was a freelance journalist and writer, who wrote, edited or contributed to over a dozen books on Indian and South Asian politics and democracy. He died on 22 December 2013, aged 92, after a short illness.

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Pran Chopra talking about his memories of Lahore in the 1940s and attending India's independence ceremonies
1921 births 2013 deaths Indian newspaper editors Indian political writers Indian radio journalists Journalists from Lahore All India Radio people Indian war correspondents Indian male journalists 20th-century Indian journalists {{India-journalist-stub