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==Early life and career== | ==Early life and career== | ||
Sen was born in a well-known [[Vaidya(caste)|Vaidya]]<ref>{{Cite book|last=Ghosha|first=Nityapriẏa|url=https://books.google. | Sen was born in a well-known [[Vaidya(caste)|Vaidya]]<ref>{{Cite book|last=Ghosha|first=Nityapriẏa|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9ZEDvcJdVRMC&q=vaidya|title=Samar Sen|date=2001|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|isbn=978-81-260-1110-0|pages=37|language=en}}</ref> family. Sen's grandfather, [[Dinesh Chandra Sen]], was a well-known writer and member of the [[Bangiya Sahitya Parishad]]. His father, Arun Sen, an academic, noted, "I am the son of an illustrious father and the father of an illustrious son!" Samar Sen, along with [[Subhash Mukhopadhyay (poet)|Subhash Mukhopadhyay]], belonged to the second generation of modern Bengali poets. He gave up poetry fairly early, however, and devoted the better part of his later life to Marxist politics and journalism. He was the editor of the leftist newspaper ''[[Frontier (newspaper)|Frontier]]'', published from [[Kolkata]], which was banned during the period of the [[The Emergency (India)|Indian Emergency (1975 -1977)]] declared by Prime Minister [[Indira Gandhi]].<ref name=oldpoetry/> | ||
==Poetry== | ==Poetry== | ||