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Samar Sen

Died in 1987

Samar Sen was born on 10 October 1916 at Bagbazar, in Calcutta, the son of Arun Sen, professor of history at Visva-Bharati, and grandson of the folklorist Dinesh Chandra Sen. A graduate in English of the University of Calcutta, he taught little, made his career in journalism and spent nearly five years in Moscow as a translator. He edited the weekly Now from 1964, founded the weekly Frontier in 1968 and published his memoirs in 1978. He died on 23 August 1987.

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