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Shreya Sen-Handley | Of Artifice, Artificial Imbecility & Midlife Joy

It claimed my parents were Amartya and Suchitra Sen! Which only amused me till a second go on Google produced a...

12 Sept 2026 8:39 PM IST

Wish Amartya Sen spends some time in India to see structural reforms:...

NITI Aayog Vice Chairman Rajiv Kumar was responding to a query regarding Sen's recent remarks about the present...

15 July 2018 3:29 PM IST

Amartya Sen was honoured with Bharat Ratna in 1999.

India has taken quantum jump in wrong direction' since 2014: Amartya...

The economist also said the govt has also deflected from issues of inequalities, caste system and scheduled tribes have...

8 July 2018 7:06 PM IST

Former PM Manmohan Singh speaking at the birth centenary memorial meeting of Indrajit HGupta in New Delhi. (Photo: ANI)

Immense pride': Manmohan Singh congratulates Nobel Prize winner...

Amartya Sen was the first Indian economist to win the Nobel Prize in 1998.

15 Oct 2019 9:27 AM IST

Gautam Navlakha

Defence: No papers to prove charges against Navlakha

According to the Pune police, all the accused were active members of the banned organisation, CPI Maoist.

7 Dec 2019 2:30 AM IST

Although the data is skimpy, many of the development programmes dont appear to have a beneficiary orientation.

Development must look at the beneficiary's perspective

Throughout my early work in villages, I remained frustrated by the small scale and slow pace of change.

11 Feb 2019 12:43 AM IST

Amartya Sen, who is the author of Reason before Identity.

How often do we place reason' before identity'?

A lot of innovative ideas were thrown up but the allotted time was over before the mike could come to me.

29 March 2019 12:54 AM IST

More Indian children are in school today than ever before, but the quality of public schools has sunk to abysmally low levels, as government schools have become the reserve of children at the very bottom of Indias social ladder.

Invest in primary teachers, kids' future at stake

By paying a pittance to our primary level teachers, we are succeeding in driving away much needed talent from this...

7 March 2019 12:08 AM IST

Sens comments were displayed in Bengali on the hoardings with a deep blue background and his photo on the left. (Photo: ANI)

Posters of Amartya Sen's 'Jai Shri Ram' comment surface in Kolkata

The 'Jai Shri Ram' chant had become the centre of political controversy with BJP and TMC sparring over it during LS...

12 July 2019 5:30 PM IST

Meghalaya Governor Tathagata Roy on Sunday criticised Nobel laureate Amartya Sens over his remark that Jai Shri Ram slogan is used nowadays to beat up people across the country and it has no association with Bengali culture. (Photo: File)

He should stick to his subject: Meghalaya Guv after Sen's remarks on...

The noted economist had also said that he has never heard of the festival Ram Navami being celebrated in Bengal before.

8 July 2019 12:48 PM IST

Amartya Sen at TIFR on Saturday. (Photo: Shripad Naik)

Amartya Sen not aware of Bengali culture: BJP on Jai Sri Ram' remark

He also said that he has never heard of Ram Navami being celebrated in the state before, asserting that it has now...

6 July 2019 9:16 AM IST

Amartya Sen. (File Photo: PTI)

Devi Kar | How Amartya's memoirs hold some valuable lessons for life

The great advantage is that Prof. Sen writes lucidly about a stupendous range of topics and ideas that a general reader...

23 Sept 2021 12:40 AM IST