The author Arjun Sen is a post graduate in Economics from BITS, Pilani and is a former Executive Editor of Cyber Yug, a monthly magazine on information technology in the Bengali language. Before that he was with the English language financial daily The Economic Times, Kolkata edition for 12 years and was the Senior News Coordinator at the time of quitting it. He started his journalistic career as a trainee journalist with the English language financial daily, Business Standard. He has also worked as an economist for two Kolkata chambers of commerce – the Indian Chamber of Commerce and the Bengal National Chamber of Commerce. For one academic year he has also been visiting faculty in the Mass Communication department of Jadavpur University, Kolkata teaching editing and reporting (practicals). Presently he is a freelance journalist and writer and mainly writes for a management website, besides doing other freelance content-writing and translation work.
He is 50 years old and lives in Kolkata with wife and three children. His major passions in life include politics, history, economics, sociology and the dynamics of social change, tracking science and technology trends, cricket, art and culture, cooking and ornithology. He is a keen bird watcher, albeit an amateur and a beginner, and a passionate Nature Lover. He also tries to be a green activist locally to the extent possible and is associated with a local social movement for protection of natural water bodies.
He also loves driving and taking long trips into the Indian countryside and continues to own a jalopy of a Maruti Omni despite all reason saying he simply cannot afford it anymore.
Although he tries to keep his feet firmly on the ground when working and writing as a professional journalist, content-writer or translator, when writing only for his own satisfaction he is a champion of all sorts of ideas that many people are likely to find extremely woolly-headed and way too dreamy. But he thinks the time for his ideas has just come! And what may seem dreamy today may be the “harsh” reality of tomorrow!
He prides himself to be a great learner, always open to new ideas and information, but he can be pretty stubborn, pig-headed and egotistic with the result that despite all his eagerness to learn, he can often be found to be pretty slow on the uptake. While he is selfish and opportunistic as he consciously tries to be a “rational” person having accepted that he is a member of the species Homo Economicus, he believes that when all the people on this Planet become “rational” and begin to realize what their true selfish interests are and what is really good for them, selfishness and competition will be replaced by altruism and cooperation as the basis of rationality. He believes that with the Information Revolution upon us, that day is not too far off! His interest in information technology stems from this belief!
