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Kerala should continue to focus on labour, education, healthcare: Dr Amartya Sen
PTI | , Thiruvananthapuram
PUBLISHED ON FEB 03, 2021 11:46 PM IST
"I would be personally very optimistic about Kerala looking to the future," Prof Sen noted, citing not just its track record, but unique historical reasons that contributed to the state's success.
Amartya Sen urges people of West Bengal to reject communalism
Kolkata | By Press Trust of India | Posted by Nilavro Ghosh
PUBLISHED ON DEC 29, 2020 03:11 PM IST
He said the Left and other secular parties in West Bengal have no less commitment than the ruling TMC to ensuring that communalism does not rear its ugly head in the state.
Intellectuals protest against treatment meted out to Sen by Visva Bharati
Kolkata | By Press Trust of India| Posted by Akhilesh Nagari
PUBLISHED ON DEC 28, 2020 09:07 AM IST
Poets Joy Goswami and Subodh Sarkar, singer Kabir Suman, painters Jogen Chowdhury and Suvaprasanna, theatre personality-turned-minister Bratya Basu and others assembled at the compound of the Academy of Fine Arts here to raise their voice on the issue.
Amartya Sen lashes out at Visva-Bharati VC “empowered” by Centre
Kolkata | By Press Trust of India| Posted by Akhilesh Nagari
UPDATED ON DEC 27, 2020 07:16 PM IST
Sen was born in 1933 at Santiniketan, which is home to Visva-Bharati, the university founded by Rabindranath Tagore, another Nobel prize recipient and a literary giant from Bengal.
Amartya Sen lashes out at Visva-Bharati VC ‘empowered’ by Centre
Kolkata | By Press Trust of India| Posted by Mallika Soni
UPDATED ON DEC 26, 2020 11:33 PM IST
A huge controversy had erupted on Thursday, the day Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the centenary celebrations of Visva-Bharati when media reported that the university has written to the West Bengal government alleging dozens of land parcels owned by it were wrongfully recorded in the names of private parties including Sen.
‘Count me as your sister’: Mamata Banerjee reaches out to Amartya Sen amid ‘land grab’ charges
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | By hindustantimes.com | Edited by Karan Manral
UPDATED ON DEC 25, 2020 06:22 PM IST
Mamata Banerjee, in an apparent reference to the opposition BJP, noted in a letter to Amartya Sen on Friday that some ‘nouveau invaders’ have now started baseless allegations against Sen.
Covid-19: Global call to tackle education emergency
Hindustan Times, London | By Prasun Sonwalkar
UPDATED ON AUG 19, 2020 06:18 AM IST
Noting that over 1 billion children are out of school due to the crisis, they wrote in an open letter to G20, governments and financial institutions that the immediate concern is the fate of an estimated 30 million children who, according to Unesco, may never return to school.
Can you tell which Nobel Prize winner named Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen?
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | By Trisha Sengupta
PUBLISHED ON JUL 02, 2020 02:25 PM IST
Nobel Prize Committee took to their official Instagram account to share this bit of information.
Amartya Sen, Noam Chomsky praise Kerala fight against Covid-19
Thiruvananthapuram | By Press Trust of India | Posted by Anubha Rohatgi
PUBLISHED ON JUN 26, 2020 10:44 PM IST
Nobel laureate Amartya Sen, however, came down heavily on the “unplanned and unstructured lockdown” in India and said it caused distress and hardship.
‘Can’t divide Hindus and Muslims’: Amartya Sen on Delhi violence
Bolpur (West Bengal) | By Press Trust of India
UPDATED ON FEB 29, 2020 10:29 PM IST
Commenting on the violence in Delhi, Nobel laureate Amartya Sen said as an Indian citizen, he “couldn’t help but worry about it”.
On anti-CAA protests, Amartya Sen says Opposition unity is important
Kolkata | By Press Trust of India
UPDATED ON JAN 14, 2020 01:08 AM IST
“We need to know more about what I am protesting about. The head must also join with the heart in protest,” Sen said on being asked about nationwide CAA-NPR-NRC protests.
Nine JNU staff who saved 30 students from being attacked during Sunday’s violence
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | By Fareeha Iftikhar
UPDATED ON JAN 09, 2020 01:47 PM IST
Monica Bishnoi, president of Sabarmati hostel, acknowledged that the mess staff, had saved a number of students when there were no wardens and security guards around.
Dressed in dhoti and sari, Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo receive Economics Nobel
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | By HT Correspondent
UPDATED ON AUG 06, 2020 08:51 PM IST
Banerjee is only the second Indian to receive the Nobel Prize in economics after Amartya Sen.
Legendary Bengali writer, academician Nabaneeta Dev Sen dies at 81
Hindustan Times, Kolkata | By HT Correspondent
UPDATED ON NOV 08, 2019 07:10 AM IST
Nabaneeta Dev Sen was honoured with numerous awards, including the Sahitya Academy Award in 1999 and Padmashree in 2000.
Parliament may honour Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | By HT Correspondent
UPDATED ON NOV 06, 2019 06:14 AM IST
It is also considered as a top honour bestowed by the Indian Parliament to non-members as such messages are not read out in the House frequently.
Humour: Surviving social etiquette
Hindustan Times | By Rehana Munir
UPDATED ON NOV 02, 2019 10:45 PM IST
From table manners to online exchanges, rules can either trip you up or rescue you
Review: Business of Taste by Centre for Science and Environment
Hindustan Times | By Vivek Menezes
UPDATED ON OCT 25, 2019 08:21 PM IST
Business of Taste highlights high-nutrition foods that have fallen out of traditional diets at calamitous cost
No coincidence that Presidency links Nobel-men
Hindustan Times, Kolkata/New Delhi | By Joydeep Thakur and Poulomi Banerjee
UPDATED ON OCT 16, 2019 04:47 PM IST
“For decades the economics department at Presidency was outstanding, unlike anything that existed anywhere in India,” says Anjan Mukherji, a former professor of economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU).
Very, very happy on Abhijit Banerjee winning Economics Nobel, says Amartya Sen
New Delhi | By Press Trust of India
UPDATED ON OCT 14, 2019 09:19 PM IST
Amartya Sen had won the same award in 1998 for his contribution to welfare economics.
Amartya Sen: Humane Face of Economics
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | By HT Correspondent
UPDATED ON AUG 02, 2019 12:36 PM IST
This Nobel laureate, writer and philosopher has made a mark with his commitment to ending poverty, deprivation and his role in creation of the UN Human Development Index.
Amartya Sen’s remark fans ‘battle of cultures’ in Bengal
Hindustan Times, Kolkata | By Snigdhendu Bhattacharya
PUBLISHED ON JUL 14, 2019 06:40 AM IST
In mid-May, when a bust of Bengal renaissance icon Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar was desecrated during a clash between supporters of the TMC’s student wing and BJP in Vidyasagar College, similar hoardings were put up across the city.
Amartya Sen says ‘Jai Sri Ram’ not linked to Bengali culture; BJP responds
Kolkata | By Agencies
UPDATED ON JUL 06, 2019 02:37 PM IST
“What I feel is slogans like Jai Sri Ram are used as pretexts to beat up people,” Nobel laureate economist Amartya Sen on Friday said.
Britain’s foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt cites Amartya Sen’s work to plug media freedom
Hindustan Times, London | By Prasun Sonwalkar
UPDATED ON MAY 02, 2019 04:35 PM IST
Announcing UK government initiatives on media freedom, Hunt said when everyone is able to exchange ideas freely, a society benefits not just from the brains of the people at the top, but from the originality and creativity of the entire population.
Top Oxford honour for Nobel laureate Amartya Sen
UPDATED ON MAR 27, 2019 12:13 AM IST
10% quota for economically weaker sections, a muddled thinking, says Amartya Sen
Kolkata | By Press Trust of India
UPDATED ON JAN 09, 2019 09:00 PM IST
Nobel laureate economist Amartya Sen said the Modi government sustained the “high economic growth” achieved during the UPA regime, but that did not translate into jobs, poverty elimination and better healthcare and education for all.
Intellectuals like Amartya Sen have always misled society: BJP leader
Kolkata | By Press Trust of India
UPDATED ON AUG 26, 2018 11:52 PM IST
On Sen’s call for defeating BJP in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, the BJP leader Dilip Ghosh said people like him have always taken the society on the wrong path.
Non-communal forces should ally for 2019 polls: Amartya Sen
Kolkata | By Press Trust of India
PUBLISHED ON AUG 26, 2018 01:49 PM IST
Sharply criticising the BJP government at the Centre, Sen said a party having got “31% votes and ill motives in politics” came to power in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls.
Wish Amartya Sen would spend some time in India to see structural reforms: Niti Aayog VC
New Delhi | By Press Trust of India
UPDATED ON JUL 15, 2018 03:12 PM IST
Niti Aayog Vice Chairman Rajiv Kumar was responding to a query regarding Amartya Sen’s recent remarks about the present government.
India has taken quantum jump in wrong direction after 2014: Amartya Sen
New Delhi | By Press Trust of India
UPDATED ON JUL 08, 2018 11:10 PM IST
Taking a critical stand of the government, Nobel laureate Amartya Sen said India was moving backwards in the fastest-growing economy.