Swapan Dasgupta

Swapan Dasgupta

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  • Name:
  • Swapan Dasgupta
  • Born:
  • October 3, 1955
  • Spouse:
  • Reshmi Dasgupta

Swapan Dasgupta Biography

Swapan Dasgupta is one of the top most journalists of the country at present. He is also a member of Rajya Sabha (nominated) since 25 April, 2016. He is also a writer. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan in the field of Literature and Education in 2015. He has held editorial posts at The Statesman, The Daily Telegraph, The Times of India, The Indian Express and India Today, and regularly wrote columns as well. He is a very common face on Indian television, mostly associated with all major political debates featured in the English electronic media, and he is quite regular with NDTV.

 

Swapan Dasgupta was born on 3 October 1955 into a very influential and intellectual Kolkata, West Bengal. His father, S.C. Dasgupta, was the owner and chairman of the Calcutta Chemical Company. His grandfather K.C. Das was an entrepreneur and one among the first Indians to graduate from Stanford University. His early school education was done at Darjeeling, followed by Kolkata, where he was a contemporary of Chandan Mitra and Paranjoy Guha Thakurta at La Martiniere Calcutta. After graduation from St. Stephen's College, Delhi with second rank of university, he moved to London for his advanced studies. He completed master’s and PhD before he returned back. His thesis "Local politics in Bengal, Midnapur District" was published in 1980.

 

After the death of his father in 1979, he briefly worked in his family business. But he stepped down and returned back to UK. He joined as a Junior Research Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford. He then returned in 1986 and started off his journalistic career at The Statesman. Since then he is fully dedicated to the world of journalism, fully active as a writer and editor and also participates in debates.

Published: October 16, 2018

Updated: October 16, 2018

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