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{{Infobox person
| honorific_prefix =
| name = Pran Chopra
| birth_date = January 1921
| birth_place = [[Lahore]], [[British Raj|British India]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2013|12|22|1921|1|1|df=y}}
| death_place = [[New Delhi]], India
| nationality = Indian
| occupation = Journalist, writer, editor
| years_active =
| employer = ''[[The Statesman (India)|The Statesman]]''
}}
'''Pran Chopra''' (January 1921 – 22 December 2013) was an Indian journalist, political analyst and newspaper editor.

Chopra was born in 1921 in [[Lahore]], [[British Raj|British India]]. He began his career as a journalist in 1941, with the ''[[Civil and Military Gazette]]'', and in the mid-1940s was a war correspondent for [[All India Radio]].<ref name=sage>[http://www.sagepub.com/authorDetails.nav?contribId=535926 Pran Chopra, Political Analyst and Former Chief Editor, the Statesman], SAGE Publications.</ref>

In his journalism career spanning over 60 years, Chopra worked for ''[[The Hindu]]'' and ''[[The Tribune (Chandigarh)|The Tribune]]'' and produced two magazines, ''The Citizen'' and ''The Weekend Review'',<ref name=hindu>{{cite news|title=Veteran journalist Pran Chopra is dead|url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/veteran-journalist-pran-chopra-is-dead/article5490395.ece|accessdate=24 December 2013|newspaper=The Hindu|date=23 December 2013}}</ref> but is most commonly associated with ''[[The Statesman (India)|The Statesman]]'' after he became the newspaper's first Indian chief editor after its transfer from British ownership in the early 1960s. He was fired from ''The Statesman'' in the late 1960s for refusing to reflect the attitude of the paper's management to the [[United Front (India)|United Front]] government in West Bengal.<ref>{{cite book|last=Hiro|first=Dilip|title=Inside India Today (Routledge Revivals)|year=2013|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1135048235}}</ref>

From the late 1990s, he was a freelance journalist and writer, who wrote, edited or contributed to over a dozen books on Indian and South Asian politics and democracy.<ref name=sage />

He died on 22 December 2013, aged 92, after a short illness.<ref name=times>{{cite news|title=Pran Chopra, veteran journalist, dies|url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-12-22/india/45473021_1_veteran-journalist-india-radio-executive-committee|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131224114158/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-12-22/india/45473021_1_veteran-journalist-india-radio-executive-committee|url-status=dead|archive-date=24 December 2013|accessdate=24 December 2013|newspaper=[[The Times of India]]|date=22 December 2013}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
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* [https://www.andrewwhitehead.net/partition-voices-pran-chopra.html Pran Chopra talking about his memories of Lahore in the 1940s and attending India's independence ceremonies]

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[[Category:1921 births]]
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[[Category:Indian newspaper editors]]
[[Category:Indian political writers]]
[[Category:Indian radio journalists]]
[[Category:Journalists from Lahore]]
[[Category:All India Radio people]]
[[Category:Indian war correspondents]]
[[Category:Indian male journalists]]
[[Category:20th-century Indian journalists]]

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