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

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. Sen also studied at

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, Calcutta, Smith College in Massachusetts, United States and at

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. She then joined the ''

Hindustan Times ''Hindustan Times'' is an Indian English-language daily newspaper based in Delhi. It is the flagship publication of HT Media, an entity controlled by the KK Birla family, and is owned by Shobhana Bhartia. It was founded by Sunder Singh Ly ...

''. As a senior editor of the ''Hindustan Times'', she went to

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on a fellowship from the

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Foundation. She has also worked with the ''

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'' Group in Calcutta and with ''

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'' in Delhi, where she was senior assistant editor. On her return to

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, she started '' The Little Magazine'' and was its founding editor. The magazine predominantly publishes articles on

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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 journa

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1963 births Living people People from Cambridge Smith College alumni Harvard University alumni Alumni of the University of Oxford Amartya Sen Writers from Kolkata Indian women editors 20th-century Indian journalists 21st-century Indian women writers 21st-century Indian writers {{UK-journalist-stub