After a brief stint as a Researcher at the University of Oxford, he returned to India in 1986 and started off his journalistic career at The Statesman. He worked in newspapers like The Times of India, The Telegraph and The Indian Express before joining India Today. He currently is a freelancer and resides in Delhi with his wife Reshmi, also a journalist, and son, Soumya.
Mr. Dasgupta is a highly regarded journalist of English media. He has been appearing constantly on popular news channel like CNN-IBN, NDTV and Times Now to debate on current issues pertaining to India and international affairs. His views on the recent Jammu crisis have also been significantly different from the majority of the establishment media in India. He has edited a collection of essays: Nirad Chaudhuri—The First Hundred Years. He is a co -participant of the weekly show Politically Incorrect with Mani Shankar Aiyar on NDTV.