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'''Kanchan Gupta''' ([[Bengali language|Bengali]]: কাঞ্চন গুপ্ত) is an Indian [[journalism|journalist]], political analyst, and activist.<br />
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==Early life and education==<br />
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Born to [[Bangladesh]]i [[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, Kolkata|St Xavier’s College, University of Calcutta]].<br />
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==Journalism career==<br />
In 1982, he joined ''[[The Telegraph (Kolkata)|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 (India)|The Statesman]]'' by the paper's then-editor, [[Sunanda K. Datta-Ray]]. He became the youngest Assistant Editor in The Statesman’s history.<br />
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In 1991, he moved to Delhi with a new assignment as Assistant Editor of ''[[The Pioneer (Indian newspaper)|The Pioneer]]'', then edited by [[Vinod Mehta]]. He was promoted to Deputy Editor in 1994.<br />
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He took a break from journalism from 1995 to 2004. He returned to journalism in 2004, and again joined ''The Pioneer'' for some time, edited by [[Chandan Mitra]].<br />
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Kanchan Gupta writes on national and regional politics, international affairs and security issues. His weekly column, Coffee Break, appears in ''The Pioneer'' every Sunday. He writes a weekly column for the popular Mumbai daily, ''MidDay''. He participates in Indian television programs on political and national security issues. He is politically conservative, socially liberal. He lives by the precepts of the [[Brahmo Samaj]].<br />
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==Political career==<br />
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 [[National Democratic Alliance (India)|NDA]] came to power, he worked in close association with [[National Security Advisor (India)|National Security Advisor]] [[Brajesh Mishra]] on foreign affairs and security issues. He was the PMO’s representative on the National Security Advisory Board.<br />
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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{{citation needed|date=April 2014}}, Kanchan Gupta was sent to Egypt as director of the Maulana Azad Centre for Indian Culture in [[Cairo]]. He held this post till 2004.<br />
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In June 2021, Gupta was appointed Senior Advisor at the [[Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (India)|Ministry of Information and Broadcasting]].<ref>{{Cite web|author=NL Team|date=2021-06-11|title=Kanchan Gupta appointed advisor to I&B ministry|url=https://www.newslaundry.com/2021/06/11/kanchan-gupta-appointed-advisor-to-ib-ministry|url-status=live|access-date=2021-11-03|website=Newslaundry}}</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
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*[http://kanchangupta.blogspot.in/ Kanchan Gupta's Personal Blog - Agent Provocateur]<br />
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