Antara Dev Sen
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Antara Dev Sen was born on September 21, 1963 in Cambridge, England, the first daughter of Nobel Prize winning economist Amartya SenAmartya Sen
Amartya Sen, CH is an Indian economist who was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions to welfare economics and social choice theory, and for his interest in the problems of society's poorest members...
and novelist Nabaneeta Dev Sen
Nabaneeta Dev Sen
Nabaneeta Dev Sen is an award-winning Indian poet, novelist and academic.- Personal life :Dev Sen was born in Kolkata, to the poet-couple Narendra Dev and Radharani Devi. In addition to Bengali and English, she reads Hindi, Oriya, Assamese, French, German, Sanskrit, and Hebrew.In the very next...
. Antara did her schooling in Calcutta and higher education in Delhi
Delhi
Delhi , officially National Capital Territory of Delhi , is the largest metropolis by area and the second-largest by population in India, next to Mumbai. It is the eighth largest metropolis in the world by population with 16,753,265 inhabitants in the Territory at the 2011 Census...
, India
India
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. Sen also studied at Smith College
Smith College
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in Massachusetts, United States
United States
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and at Harvard University
Harvard University
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. She then joined the Hindustan Times
Hindustan Times
Hindustan Times is an Indian English-language daily newspaper founded in 1924 with roots in the Indian independence movement of the period ....
. As a senior editor
Editor in chief
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of the Hindustan Times, she went to Oxford University on a fellowship from the Reuters
Reuters
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Foundation.
On her return to Delhi
Delhi
Delhi , officially National Capital Territory of Delhi , is the largest metropolis by area and the second-largest by population in India, next to Mumbai. It is the eighth largest metropolis in the world by population with 16,753,265 inhabitants in the Territory at the 2011 Census...
, she started The Little Magazine and was its founding editor
Editor in chief
An editor-in-chief is a publication's primary editor, having final responsibility for the operations and policies. Additionally, the editor-in-chief is held accountable for delegating tasks to staff members as well as keeping up with the time it takes them to complete their task...
. The magazine predominantly publishes articles on literary themes relating to South Asia
South Asia
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. Dev Sen also writes for openDemocracy
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and is an advisor for Words Without Borders
Words Without Borders
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.
As a journalist
Journalist
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, Antara wrote a Red Cross report on Angola
Angola
Angola, officially the Republic of Angola , is a country in south-central Africa bordered by Namibia on the south, the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the north, and Zambia on the east; its west coast is on the Atlantic Ocean with Luanda as its capital city...
which involved travelling to rebel territories. Antara has prepared reports on the South Asian tsunami
Tsunami
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and Indian general elections of 2004. She has also written India, the Eternal Magic (2000).
She is married to journalist
Journalist
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Pratik Kanjilal.