On 8 December 1998, Amartya Sen delivered his Nobel Prize lecture at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he discussed the challenges and foundational problems faced by social choice theory as a discipline.
Santiniketan literally means the abode of peace. It is where Rabindranath Tagore lived and founded a central university. Now, Santiniketan has been added to the list of...
Second notice in a week to Sen. He has been asked to vacate the 13 decimal plot in Santiniketan by 6 May or a fortnight since issue of the order, whichever comes later.
Notice was pasted outside Sen’s home Pratichi day after court directed police to ensure status quo on said land until dispute between Nobel laureate & Visva-Bharati is settled.
A controversy over 13 decimals of land between Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen and Visva Bharati has turned into political slugfest after Sen said 'Mamata Banerjee has ability to be next PM'.
Sen refuses Banga Bibhushan, state govt's highest civilian award, introduced by CM Mamata Banerjee in 2011. TMC intellectual cell member says party has 'very good relationship' with Sen.
Report by Pratichi (India) Trust, published this month, says participation of women in airing grievances is almost 45%, an indication of their interest in claiming rights and entitlements.
Amid claims that Amartya Sen called Visva Bharati VC Bidyut Chakraborty and introduced himself as Bharat Ratna, Sen said that it was 'tantalisingly untrue'.
Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.
PTC Industries is investing Rs 1,000 cr in 4 manufacturing plants in UP, has already started supplying titanium parts to BAE Systems for its M-777 howitzers that India also uses.
Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.
Academics like Amartya’s ego blinds them as much as the fundamentalists. The only difference is that Amartya enjoys an elite network that cushions his privilege of intellectual dishonesty.
This has been a chronic ailment of the “left leaning” liberal intelligentsia. Conflating certain strains of Islamic orthodoxy with a proto-communist egalitarian society and living in perpetual fear of being branded “Islamophobic” has turned them blind to the grave portents of radicalism. While no rebuke can be harsh enough for Hindu irredentism, Mr Sen and his ilk is loathe to do anything but mollycoddle Islamist fundamentalist. This blindspot renders them ineffectual in Bangladesh and the mendacity renders them vulnerable to charges of hypocrisy in India. If the left is regain any semblance of moral authority, they need to call a spade a spade irrespective of the faith it claims to profess.
Academics like Amartya’s ego blinds them as much as the fundamentalists. The only difference is that Amartya enjoys an elite network that cushions his privilege of intellectual dishonesty.
When an economist chooses leftism over free market, that means he learnt wrong economics. So such persons usually do wrong things.
Amartya Is not Sane
This has been a chronic ailment of the “left leaning” liberal intelligentsia. Conflating certain strains of Islamic orthodoxy with a proto-communist egalitarian society and living in perpetual fear of being branded “Islamophobic” has turned them blind to the grave portents of radicalism. While no rebuke can be harsh enough for Hindu irredentism, Mr Sen and his ilk is loathe to do anything but mollycoddle Islamist fundamentalist. This blindspot renders them ineffectual in Bangladesh and the mendacity renders them vulnerable to charges of hypocrisy in India. If the left is regain any semblance of moral authority, they need to call a spade a spade irrespective of the faith it claims to profess.