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* [[Aveek Sarkar]]<br />
* [[Arup Kumar Sarkar]]<br />
* [[Adhip Kumar Sarkar]]<br />
* [[Asani Sarkar]]<br />
* [[Sarbani Rath]]<br />
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* [[Prafulla Kumar Sarkar]] ([[father]])<br />
* [[Nirjharini Sarkar]] ([[mother]])<br />
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'''Ashok Kumar Sarkar''' (7 October 1912 – 17 February 1983) was the [[editor-in-chief]] and owner of ''[[Anandabazar Patrika]]'' and [[ABP Group]] from 1958 to 1983 after death of [[Prafulla Kumar Sarkar]] the inaugural editor of [[Anandabazar Patrika]].<ref>{{cite web|last=red ink printing|first=Ananda Bazar Patrika Uniqueness|title=Ananda Bazar Patrika Uniqueness|url=http://www.mediamimansa.com/11th%20issue/11eng_92-96.pdf|publisher=Pabitra Kumar Mukherji|access-date=13 March 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120611210422/http://www.mediamimansa.com/11th%20issue/11eng_92-96.pdf|archive-date=11 June 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref><br />
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== Early life ==<br />
Ashok Kumar Sarkar was born in a [[Bengali Hindus|Bengali]] [[Hindu]] family, the only child of [[Prafulla Kumar Sarkar]] and [[Nirjharini Sarkar]]. He was a graduate of the [[Scottish Church College]].<ref>''Some Alumni of Scottish Church College'' in ''175th Year Commemoration Volume''. Scottish Church College, April 2008. page 588</ref> In 1957 he became an editor of the [[Desh magazine]] and a director of [[ABP Group]]. In 1958<br />
upon the death of [[Prafulla Kumar Sarkar]] he became the second [[editor-in-chief]] of [[Anandabazar Patrika]]. He was among the first Indian journalists to start [[offset printing]] in newspapers. He organised an exhibition on Bengali printing in 1978 on the occasion of 200 yrs anniversary of the publication of first Bengali grammar by [[Nathaniel Brassey Halhed]] in 1778.<br />
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* [https://www.telegraphindia.com/1121007/jsp/opinion/story_16055675.jsp ″A Centenary Tribute - Ashok Kumar Sarkar (1912-1983)″], ''[[The Telegraph (Calcutta)]]'', 7 October 2012. Retrieved on 29 July 2017.<br />
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