Chandan Mitra was an Indian journalist and politician who was the editor and managing director of The Pioneer newspaper in Delhi.
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Chandan Mitra was a two-term member of the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian parliament, serving between 2003 and 2009 as a nominated member from the Bharatiya Janata Party, and between 2003 and 2009 as an elected member from the state of Madhya Pradesh, again from BJP.
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Chandan Mitra quit BJP and joined the All India Trinamool Congress in 2018.
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Chandan Mitra studied at La Martiniere Calcutta, where he was awarded the Founder's Gold Medal in 1971.
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Chandan Mitra was a batchmate of Swapan Dasgupta and Paranjoy Guha Thakurta at La Martiniere, and all three went up to St Stephen's College, Delhi University, together.
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Chandan Mitra later went on to become the President of the student union himself.
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Chandan Mitra started his career in journalism as an Assistant Editor with The Statesman in Kolkata before moving on to The Times of India in Delhi and later to The Sunday Observer where he went on to become the Editor of the newspaper.
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Chandan Mitra later moved to the Hindustan Times as an Executive Editor.
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Chandan Mitra headed the newspaper for 24 years before stepping down in June 2021.
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Chandan Mitra was an advocate for the soft power of Bollywood, the Indian film industry, and was amongst the first to dedicate space to discussions linked to the industry in a mainstream newspaper.
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Chandan Mitra was a supporter of left-wing politics in his student years.
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Chandan Mitra was considered close to L K Advani, former Indian Deputy Prime Minister, from the Bharatiya Janata Party.
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Chandan Mitra was nominated to Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian parliament, from the BJP in 2003 and served his first term through 2009.
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Chandan Mitra was elected for his second term to the Rajya Sabha as a member from the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh in 2010 and served the term through 2016.
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Chandan Mitra quit the Bharatiya Janata Party in 2018 and joined the All India Trinamool Congress, the ruling party of the Indian state of West Bengal.
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Chandan Mitra had two sons Kushan and Shakya from an earlier marriage.
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Chandan Mitra was an avid food-lover and was considered an authority on Indian film music and on Rabindra Sangeet.
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Chandan Mitra died on 1 September 2021 at the age of 66 at his home in Sainik Farm, in Delhi.