About Us
Subhra Kanti Gupta worked for many newspapers like Dainik Sambad (Agartala) and Overland (Calcutta) before he joined BBC in 1997. He worked as Production and Research Assistant to BBC Eastern India bureau chief Subir Bhaumik. In 2000, he left BBC and joined Khabor Ekhon TV channel as Staff Reporter. He then worked as Television journalist with ETV (Hyderabad) and Asian News International (Delhi). Gupta joined Panos South Asia as Radio Correspondent. He then edited and published a monthly thoughts-and-ideas magazine LOOKEAST. But the idea of a media dedicated to cover Asia’s one of the crucial link regions is behind launching the LOOKEAST
Prasanta Paul served Deccan Herald as the Chief of Bureau, Calcutta for nearly two decades before switching to work with various TV channels such as Al-Jazeera, CNN, German TV and CBS. He also headed the Eastern Bureau of Parliamentarian magazine. Mr. Paul who accompanied former Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee on his overseas tour of Singapore and other Asian countries, travelled extensively to Bhutan, Sikkim and Darjeeling besides other Northeastern states. He briefly headed the Mizoram Bureau of the United News of India (UNI). To his credit goes a deep-rooted empathy for social issues and marginalized people. His extensive coverage on the Tsunami, the Super Cyclone in Odisha and the 2020 Amphan cyclone besides the Gaisal Train mishap in eastern India has easily been the best around the world.







