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Aparna Sen quits ABP; to be part of Suman Chatterjee’s new venture Kolkata TV

Kolkata TV is the upcoming Bengali news channel, which is being launched by the Xenitis group and former Ananda Bazar Patrika executive editor Suman Chatterjee

After Suman Chatterjee, executive producer, STAR Ananda , and Aniruddha Lahiri, managing director, Ananda Bazar Patrika Group, and, even Aparna Sen, editor, Sananda has quit the ABP group.

Sen has been editing Sananda, the Bengali women’s magazine from the ABP stable since its launch in 1986. For all these years, Sen’s celebrity image has nurtured the growth of Sananda. However, unlike most celebrity editors, she lent much more than just her name and face to the magazine. She used to pen the editorial herself and even oversee the editorial content and the picture pages in each issue.

When contacted by agencyfaqs!, she declined to discuss her reasons behind quitting the ABP group.

According to industry sources, Sen is all set to join the Xenitis group’s upcoming Bengali news channel, Kolkata TV. She will head the non-news programmes division. This will include talk shows, chat shows, and entertainment-based programmes.

Chatterjee has also moved from the ABP group where he was first the executive editor of the Bengali daily, Ananda Bazar Patrika, and then the executive producer of the group’s Bengali news channel STAR Ananda.

Sources within the company confirm that the channel will be launched in early 2006, latest by February 2006.

The five-year-old Xenitis group became famous for creating the sub-10k segment in the branded personal computers market. The product was launched with four different brands such as Aamar PC in the east, Aamchi PC in the west, Apna PC in the north, and Namma PC in the south.

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