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Its USP is that it has created a media slot for secondary school students in government schools, especially school girls. They write insightful and original think pieces, short stories and poetry, book and cinema reviews. This has been a big success.
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It also features success stories, especially that of girls and women, from remote areas and small towns of India. In sports, the focus is not on men’s cricket only — it showcases wrestling, chess, women’s cricket, etc.

Based in Delhi, Amit Sengupta has worked across the mainstream English media in India. He has been a journalist, assistant editor, and senior editor with The Pioneer (since its launch), The Economic Times, Asian Age, Hindustan Times, Outlook magazine and Financial Chronicle. He was a Founder Editor, Tehelka weekly newspaper. He was also Executive Editor of Hardnews magazine for more than 10 years. Hardnews was a niche magazine with a tie-up with le monde diplomatique, Paris.

He has had a long stint teaching journalism, media and culture studies as well. He was Associate Professor in English Journalism, Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC), New Delhi, also teaching professional journalists from various developing countries — ‘Development Communication’. He was Dean of Studies, NISCORT, NCR-Delhi, a media institute for post-graduate students run by the Catholic Bishops Conference of India. He has been a Visiting Faculty at the Mass Communication Research Centre (MCRC), Jamia Millia Islamia Central University, New Delhi, and the (Dainik) Jagran Institute of Management and Mass Communication (JIMMC), teaching graduate and post-graduate students. He has given lectures across several campuses in India, especially in Kerala. He was a ‘Fellow’ at Wellesley College in 2016, one of the top colleges in the US, based in Boston area.

Among other events and current affairs news, he has covered the US elections in 2016 from New York and Boston, China and Tibet before the Olympics, 2008, the pro-democracy struggle in Nepal, the anniversary of the Gwangju uprising for democracy, in South Korea, in 2005, politics and society in Russia, and an international design conference in Amsterdam. He has routinely covered elections in India, the Delhi riots of 1984, the Gujarat Genocide of 2002, and did ground coverage of the earthquake in Gujarat and Uttarakhand, Tsunami in South India, and social and political movements across India. He has extensively covered the life and times of tribals in the deep interiors, in the Central Provinces of India, Tripura, and at the Doodhwa National Park in the UP-Nepal border.

Apart from reporting, he has been a professional editor, also, in-charge of the Editorial Page in some of the mainstream English media. He has written articles for a cross-section of the Indian and international media. Currently, he writes on international affairs, including on the Middle East, Indian politics, society, books, and arts and culture.

He has published a book of his selected writings, ‘Colour of Gratitude is Green’, which came out in 2010. His new book in hardback and paperback (to be published by Anamika) will be launched at the next book fair in Delhi, tentatively to be held in January, 2025.

A JNU alumni, he has been the only ‘independent’ president of the JNU Students’ Union (JNUSU), elected in 1989.