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Antara Dev SenAntara Dev Sen is the founder and editor of The Little Magazine, published in Delhi and featuring essays, fiction, poetry, art and criticism. She was senior editor at the Hindustan Times and a fellow at the Reuters Foundation in Oxford, England. Antara Dev Sen wrote a Red Cross report on Angola, which involved travelling through rebel territory, and is advisor of Word Without Borders. She also authored India the Eternal Magic (2000) She has written diversely for openDemocracy, contributing to the Letters to America series, on the May 2004 Indian elections and India's reaction to the December 2004 tsunami. Recent articlesIndia's tsunami The Indian government’s refusal of foreign aid to its devastated coastal and island regions reflects its aspiration to sit at the world’s top table. Antara Dev Sen on the national dimensions of a global tragedy. The wrong AmericaCan America be good as well as great? In the fourth of our Letters to Americans series, Antara Dev Sen of India’s “The Little Magazine” writes to Dinesh D’Souza, author of “What’s so great about America”. India's benign earthquakeThe defeat of the ruling BJP by Sonia Gandhi’s Congress Party was followed by Sonia’s refusal to become prime minister. As Indians reel in amazement at their own democratic handiwork, Antara Dev Sen in Delhi makes sense of a political world turned upside down. |
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