Nobel laureate Amartya Sen criticized the Indian government upon his arrival in Kolkata, emphasizing the need for political open-mindedness and secularism. Sen highlighted issues such as wrongful imprisonments, economic disparities, among others.
Amid reports that Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen died, his daughter Nandana Deb Sen dismissed the news claiming the veteran economist is totally fine.
India's "confused" government focused on taking credit for its actions, rather than working to restrict the spread of COVID-19, resulting in schizophrenia that led to massive troubles, Nobel laureate Amartya Sen has said.
Nobel laureate Amartya Sen said on Monday that opposition unity was important for a protest to be successful, in an apparent reference to the ongoing demonstrations against the Citizenship Amendment Act
Nobel laureate Amartya Sen on Wednesday rallied behind the JNU students who were attacked inside the campus and criticised the role of police in dealing with the violence saying there was a "big absence of justice in the matter".
In a rare honour, the Presidency University on Thursday decided to emboss facsimiles of the faces of Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee and Amartya Sen - the two Nobel laureates in its list of distinguished alumni - on its wall.
Taking a jibe at Nobel laureate Amartya Sen for saying that the 'Jai Shri Ram' slogan has no historic connect with Bengali culture, state BJP leaders on Saturday said the economist has become disconnected from India's cultural ethos as he mostly stays abroad.
The economist said the Modi government was successful in maintaining the economic growth India achieved before they came to power.
Speaking during a question-answer session at Sisir Manch auditorium in Kolkata, he said; "We must express our opposition to autocracy, we must fight against their autocratic trends..."
Lok Sabha elections 2019: To a question on the efficacy of multi-party system in the country, Sen said, "I found no example which said democracy won't function without multi-party system. In one-party system we had seen example of autocratic rules over the years."
A documentary on Amartya Sen has run into trouble with the Censor Board telling its filmmaker Suman Ghosh to mute words like ‘cow’, ‘Gujarat’ and ‘Hindutva’ uttered by the Nobel Laureate in the film
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today took potshots at economists saying that hard work is more powerful than Harvard.
West Bengal BJP president Dilip Ghosh on Saturday drew flak after his personal attack on Nobel laureate Amartya Sen and questioning about his contribution to the nation.
A day after being ranked as the world’s third worst airlines in terms of on-time performance, national carrier Air India today tweeted a note from Nobel laureate Amartya Sen in which he praised the airlines for their wonderful service and great care
Nobel laureate Professor Amartya Sen has blasted Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s decision to ‘demonetise’ high-denomination currency-notes and said that it betrayed the “authoritarian nature of the government”.
Noted industrialist Ratan Tata today lauded Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s decision to ‘demonetise’ high-denomination currency notes and asked the countrymen to support his courageous initiative.
New Delhi: Ending months of speculation, India's central bank governor Raghuram Rajan on Saturday said he will step down when his term ends in early September. This decision caught many by surprise and also led
New Delhi: Terming RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan's decision not to seek a second term as 'sad' for the country, Nobel laureate Amartya Sen on Saturday said India is losing one of the most skillful economic
London: Taking a dig at the trend of branding people as anti-national for not “toeing a certain line”, Nobel laureate professor Amartya Sen on Friday said casteism that divides India is anti-national. Addressing a special
New Delhi: Indians have been "much too tolerant" of intolerance, Nobel laureate Amartya Sen said on Friday and asked people to "work hard" to preserve the tradition of tolerance and plurality which he said was
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