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Chandan Mitra is an Indian journalist, politician, and former Member of Parliament. He was born on 12 December 1954 in Howrah, West Bengal. He is 66 years old as of 2021. He completed his schooling from St. Xavier's School, Kolkata and graduated from St. Xavier's College, Kolkata. He then went on to pursue a Master's degree in Economics from the University of Calcutta. He started his career as a journalist in the early 1980s and worked for various newspapers and magazines. He was the editor of The Pioneer, a leading English daily in India, from 1994 to 2002. He was elected to the Rajya Sabha in 2003 and served as a Member of Parliament until 2009. He was also the Minister of State for Communications and Information Technology in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government. He is currently the Chairman of the Prasar Bharati Board, the governing body of India's public broadcasting network. Chandan Mitra is unmarried and has no children. His net worth is estimated to be around $2 million.

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Age 66 years old
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Born 12 December, 1954
Birthday 12 December
Birthplace Howrah, West Bengal, India
Date of death September 01, 2021
Died Place Delhi, India
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His wife is Swati Mitra (1977-1999) Shobori Ganguli

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Children 2 (Kushan Mitra, Shakya Mitra)

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2013

In July 2013 he made a controversial remark at the renowned economist Amartya Sen, but soon regretted it. He contested the 2014 General Elections on a BJP ticket from Hooghly constituency. He stood third and had to forfeit his deposit.

1998

Mitra started in journalism as Assistant Editor with The Statesman in Kolkata before he moved to the Times of India in Delhi and then The Sunday Observer; he went on to become Editor of the paper, and later moved to the Hindustan Times as Executive Editor. Mitra left to join The Pioneer as Editor, and eventually bought control of the newspaper from the Thapar family in 1998 when industrialist L. M. Thapar decided to cut his losses.

1984

In 1984, he was awarded a doctorate degree at Oxford University, where he was a member of Magdalen College, for the thesis "Political mobilisation and the nationalism movement in India – a study of eastern Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, 1936-1942" written under supervision of the noted Indian historian Tapan Raychaudhuri. Mitra is married to Shobori Ganguly.

1971

Mitra was educated at La Martiniere Calcutta, where he was awarded the Founder's Gold Medal in 1971. He was a batchmate of Swapan Dasgupta and Paranjoy Guha Thakurta at La Martiniere, and all three went up to St. Stephen's College, Delhi University, together. At St. Stephen's, Mitra and Shashi Tharoor were to become great friends and Mitra even became campaign manager for Tharoor's successful campaign to become President of the college's student union. Mitra received an MA and M.Phil in History at Delhi University as well. He taught for a short while at Hansraj College.

1955

Chandan Mitra (Bengali: চন্দন মিত্র ) (born 12 December 1955) is an Indian journalist, presently editor and managing director of The Pioneer newspaper in Delhi. He was nominated as a member of the Rajya Sabha during August 2003 to August 2009. He was elected to another term in the Rajya Sabha, as a Bharatiya Janata Party MP from Madhya Pradesh, in June 2010. He joined All India Trinamool Congress in 2018.

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