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 Datta (second from right), shown here with her family, was born and raised in India. (Courtesy of the Datta Family) BORN TO WRITE

Abhinanda Datta was born and raised in India. Her grandfather, Dr. Amaresh Datta, was an eminent Shakespearean scholar and Abhinanda took after him with a great interest in English literature, according to her family. The elder Datta died last August at the age of 101, and a state funeral was held in his honor.

"Writing has always been a passion, but when I learned about the abuse women my age faced, I decided to forego fictional stories to write about those who needed to be heard," Abhinanda Datta once wrote. "That is how at the age of 14 I decided that I would dedicate my life to making a difference."

Even before graduating from high school, Datta started having her work published. She reported on topics like the abuse of women, yoga and India's 60th year of independence, while also critiquing books, films and music for The Telegraph in Schools, the largest student-run newspaper in East India.

"She had a natural gift of the gab, and had an excellent command over her English. This helped her to be a meticulous editor," said Biswanath Dasgupta, editor-in-charge, The Telegraph In Schools. "An excellent artist, she blossomed on the pages of her paper TTIS with beautiful illustrations/doodles for poems, short stories and cover stories."

Datta received a high school degree from Our Lady Queen of the Missions in 2011, where she studied English, history, political science and economics. She was also involved with the drama team, school band and editorial board at the school in Kolkata.

At Jadavpur University in Kolkata, she earned a bachelor's degree in English Literature in 2014 and a master's degree in English Literature two years later. After graduation, she was a retainer for the books page of The Telegraph where she wrote stories on books and authors.

In 2017, Datta was a journalism resident for Cape Argus in Cape Town, South Africa.

Datta would graduate with a master's of science degree in journalism from Northwestern University in 2018. Soon thereafter, she began working for 22nd Century Media and eventually became an editor for the media company that was formerly based out of the suburbs of Chicago. Datta worked there until the company folded in March 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Datta's work has also appeared in The Huffington Post, Medill News Service, Medill Justice Project and Chicago Magazine.

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After the closure of 22nd Century Media, Datta became a field editor for Patch, a national media company based out of New York City. At the time of her death, she was covering the Illinois communities of Plainfield, Oswego, Bolingbrook and Romeoville for Patch.

"Abhinanda joined Patch in the early days of the pandemic, a strange time for us all, but she dove right in without missing a beat, covering the chaos of the early days of COVID-19," said Shannon Antinori, regional manager and Abhinanda's manager at Patch.

 

 

 

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