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| name = Barun Sengupta<br/><big>{{lang|bn|বরুণ সেনগুপ্ত}}</big><br />
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| caption = Barun Sengupta<br />
| birth_date = {{birth date|1934|1|23|df=y}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Barisal]], [[Bengal Presidency]], [[British India]]<br />
| death_date = {{death date and age|2008|6|19|1934|1|23|df=y}}<br />
| death_place = [[Kolkata]], [[West Bengal]], [[India]]<br />
| occupation = [[Journalist]], founder-editor of ''[[Bartaman]]''<br />
| nationality = [[India]]n<br />
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'''Barun Sengupta''' ({{lang-bn|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]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Paul|first=Sudeep|date=June 24, 2008|title=A reporter of his time - Indian Express|url=http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/a-reporter-of-his-time/326580/2|url-status=live|access-date=2021-12-22|website=archive.indianexpress.com}}</ref><br />
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==Life==<br />
Son of Nirmalananda Sengupta and Ranibala Devi, Barun Sengupta was born in [[Barisal]] (in present-day [[Bangladesh]]). 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.<br />
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His education started in B.M. School, Barisal. Later he was admitted to Town School, Kolkata. After graduating in commerce from [[City College, Kolkata]],<ref>{{Cite web|title=রাজনৈতিক সংবাদকেও গৃহস্থের রান্নাঘরে পৌঁছে দিয়েছিলেন|url=https://www.anandabazar.com/patrika/some-unknown-facts-about-journalist-barun-sengupta-1.685516|access-date=2021-09-08|website=www.anandabazar.com|language=bn}}</ref> he founded a periodical named ''Bhabikal'' which lasted a few issues. In 1957, he founded another weekly named ''Bartaman'' with the aid of [[Hemanta Kumar Bose]], a popular leader of the political party, [[Forward Bloc]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=June 20, 2008|title=Barun Sengupta dead {{!}} Kolkata News - Times of India|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/barun-sengupta-dead/articleshow/3147118.cms|access-date=2021-09-08|website=The Times of India|language=en}}</ref> He joined [[Anandabazar Patrika]] in 1960 and became its first designated political correspondent in 1965. During the [[The Emergency (India)|Emergency]], he was sent to jail along with another reporter, [[Gour Kishore Ghosh]].<ref>The crusade and end of Indira raj by Sudhansu Kumar Ghose - 1978 - Page 19</ref><br />
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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.{{citation_needed|date=June 2019}}<br />
He died in a south Kolkata nursing home after a brief illness.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Barun Sengupta passes away|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/west-bengal/barun-sengupta-passes-away/cid/578115|access-date=2021-09-08|website=www.telegraphindia.com}}</ref><br />
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==Books==<br />
He wrote several books on India's political situation. 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.<br />
* ''Pala Badaler Pala''<br />
* ''Sab Chatitra Kalpanik''<br />
* ''Bipak-i-stan''<br />
* ''Andhakarer Antaraley''<br />
* ''Netajir Antardhan Rahasya''<br />
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==Further reading==<br />
* '''''Barun Sengupta Rachana Sangraha''''' (Collected Works of Barun Sengupta in [[Bengali language|Bengali]]), [[Ananda Publishers]] Pvt Ltd, Kolkata - 700009<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
* News of Sengupta's Death and a short biography from The Telegraph -[http://www.telegraphindia.com/1080620/jsp/bengal/story_9437783.jsp]<br />
* News of Sengupta's Death from Indian Express -[http://www.indianexpress.com/story/325163.html]<br />
* Biography of Barun Sengupta from Yahoo News - [http://in.news.yahoo.com/43/20080619/812/tnl-barun-sengupta-was-an-uncompromising_1.html]{{dead link|date=October 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}<br />
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