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Sunanda K. Datta-Ray has been a Bengali journalist for half a century. He has been editor of ''The Statesman'' (Calcutta and New Delhi) and has also written for the ''International Herald Tribune'' and ''Time''. He was editor-in-Residence at the East-West Center in Honolulu.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Author: Sunanda K Datta-Ray )〕〔 〕 He was editorial consultant to Singapore's ''The Straits Times'' newspaper. Datta-Ray also worked in Singapore in the mid-1970s with S.R. Nathan. After the ''Straits Times'', Datta-Ray was a supernumerary fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Datta-Ray returned to Singapore in 2007 to work on book with Lee Kuan Yew at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies〔(【引用サイトリンク】work= Sunanda K. Datta-Ray ) 〕 based on a series of one-on-one conversations and a host of classified documents.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= ISEAS Conferences and Seminar Activities )〕 The book was published in 2009 as Looking East to Look West: Lee Kuan Yew's Mission India and won that year's Vodafone Crossword Book Award. ==Personal history== Datta Ray was born 13 December 1937 in Calcutta, and educated at La Martiniere for Boys School, Calcutta. After graduating in English from the University of Calcutta, Datta-Ray trained as a chartered accountant in England. In 1958 he was with the Stockport Advertiser, and in 1959 with the Northern Echo. In 1960 he joined ''The Statesman'' as junior London correspondent. In 1960–62 he was ''The Statesmans roving features editor, and 1962–68 the Sunday Magazine editor. In 1980–1986 he rose to be Deputy editor and became editor in 1986. A Hindu – though his mother is of the Brahmo Samaj — Datta-Ray had a Catholic wedding in Australia to a Bengali woman whom he met in Sydney. Datta-Ray sees himself as the product of the intermeshing of high-caste Bengali society and upper-class English society throughout the 18th and 19th centuries which, writes Datta-Ray, has now 'vanished'. Known as the ''Ingabanga'', Datta-Ray defined his society thus:
Datta-Ray is a direct descendant of B.L.Gupta who was one of three Indians (the others were Surendranath Banerjea and Romesh Chunder Dutt) who in 1869 broke through the colour bar and became the first native (Indian) civilian in the Indian Civil Service. B.L. Gupta was educated at University College London. Datta-Ray's grandfather, K.P. Basu, went to Downing College, Cambridge and Basu's sister is the mother of India's former Chief of Army Staff Shankar Roychowdhury. Another ancestor is Jatin Sen Gupta and his wife the English woman Nellie Sengupta who was the first woman President of the Indian National Congress.〔 〕 Datta-Ray's father was a student at the London School of Economics. Datta-Ray's is a member of the India International Centre and London's Travellers Club.〔http://www.thetravellersclub.org.uk/〕 He is also a member of the Bengal Club and the Calcutta Club. He resigned from the National Liberal Club (London). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sunanda K. Datta-Ray」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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