Antara Dev Sen

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 Reuter 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 the Open Democracy Movement 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 2004Fact|date=February 2007. She has also written "India, the Eternal Magic" (2000).

She is married to journalist Pratik Kanjilal.

External links

* [http://www.littlemag.com/about/about.html The Little Magazine]
* [http://www.opendemocracy.net/author/Antara_Dev_Sen.jsp Open Democracy]
* [http://www.wordswithoutborders.org/ Words Without Borders]