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Barun Sengupta was born on 23 January, 1934 in Barisal, Bengal Presidency, British India, is an Indian writer (1934–2008). Discover Barun Sengupta's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 74 years old?

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Occupation Journalist, founder-editor of Bartaman
Age 74 years old
Zodiac Sign Aquarius
Born 23 January, 1934
Birthday 23 January
Birthplace Barisal, Bengal Presidency, British India
Date of death 19 June, 2008
Died Place Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Nationality India

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1934

Barun Sengupta (বরুণ সেনগুপ্ত) (23 January 1934 – 19 June 2008), the founder-editor of Bartaman newspaper, was a Bengali journalist and popular political critic.

He is remembered for his bold and simple diction of political analysing that made him extremely well liked among the common readers in West Bengal.

Son of Nirmalananda Sengupta and Ranibala Devi, Barun Sengupta was born in Barisal (in present-day Bangladesh).

1947

Sengupta, along with his family, moved to Kolkata before the partition of India in 1947 and rented a house near Baithakkhana Market in north-central Kolkata.

His education started in B.M. School, Barisal.

Later he was admitted to Town School, Kolkata.

After graduating in commerce from City College, Kolkata, he founded a periodical named Bhabikal which lasted a few issues.

1957

In 1957, he founded another weekly named Bartaman with the aid of Hemanta Kumar Bose, a popular leader of the political party, Forward Bloc.

1960

He joined Anandabazar Patrika in 1960 and became its first designated political correspondent in 1965.

During the Emergency, he was sent to jail along with another reporter, Gour Kishore Ghosh.

1966

One of his controversial book Indira Ekadashi was based on the 11-year tenure (1966–77) of Indira Gandhi as the Prime Minister of India.

1984

In 1984, he left Anandabazar Patrika to start his own journal and launched Bartaman, a daily, on 7 December that year.

For its straightforward and intrepid style, the journal became extremely popular among the common Bengali readers.

Later Sengupta launched two more periodicals - Saptahik Bartaman, a weekly and Sukhi Grihokon, a monthly and this time too it was a success.

These two journals are now widely read in West Bengal.

He died in a south Kolkata nursing home after a brief illness.

He wrote several books on India's political situation.