Kanchan Gupta

Kanchan Gupta

Kanchan Gupta is an Indian journalist, political analyst, and activist.

Journalist and columnist

Born to East Bengali refugee parents, Kanchan Gupta was raised in Jamshedpur and Patna where he attended missionary schools. He later moved to Kolkata where he studied English literature, political science and economics at St Xavier’s College, University of Calcutta.

In 1982, he joined The Telegraph as a sub-editor on the news desk, where he learned editing from M.J. Akbar. In 1987, he was invited to join The Statesman by the paper’s then editor, Sunanda K. Datta-Ray. He became the youngest Assistant Editor in The Statesman’s history.

In 1991, he moved to Delhi with a new assignment as Assistant Editor of The Pioneer, then edited by Vinod Mehta. He was promoted to Deputy Editor in 1994.

A year later, in December 1995, he gave up full-time journalism to concentrate on a public career and began to assist L.K. Advani and Atal Bihari Vajpayee in their parliamentary work. As an official in the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) when the NDA came to power, he worked in close association with National Security Adviser Brajesh Mishra on foreign affairs and security issues. He was the PMO’s representative on the National Security Advisory Board.

As part of the Government’s public diplomacy initiative in Arab countries, and to engage and influence opinion-makers and the intelligentsia in the Middle East, Kanchan Gupta was sent to Egypt as director of the Maulana Azad Centre for Indian Culture in Cairo. He held this post till the summer of 2004, when he returned to India and to journalism, and accepted a position as Associate Editor of The Pioneer, now edited by Chandan Mitra.

Kanchan Gupta writes on national and regional politics, international affairs and security issues. He is among the few Right-wing journalists in India who are not squeamish about writing on Hindu issues and exploring the potential of Hindu nationalism as a unifying force.

His articles have been used as primary source material by authors of books on Indian current affairs and politics. He writes occasional columns for India’s foremost news portal, rediff.com. Most of his articles and columns can be found at www.dailypioneer.com and on his blog, Agent Provocateur, at kanchangupta.blogspot.com.

A number of Kanchan Gupta's articles have been quoted in Wikipedia articles on various topics:

haqeeqat (book), Asha Parekh filmography, Rizwanur Rahman

Widely travelled, Kanchan Gupta is the recipient of several fellowships from public institutions in Canada, the United States, Israel and Germany. He has addressed seminars at a host of universities and think tanks.

He lives in India’s National Capital Region with his wife and two daughters.

External links

* [http://kanchangupta.blogspot.com/ Agent Provocateur -- Personal Blog]
* [http://www.dailypioneer.com/ The Pioneer]
* [http://www.rediff.com/news/gupta.htm/ Kanchan Gupta on Rediff.com]


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