Amartya Sen

The writer, a Nobel laureate in economics, is Thomas W. Lamont University Professor and professor of economics and philosophy at Harvard University

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Amartya Sen on Dr Manmohan Singh: I wish his vision will remain an indispensable part of the understanding of what we areSubscriber Only

January 14,2025 15:18:46 PM

Health care, education, caste divisions…areas in which Manmohan could have been less reticent, especially in making his private concerns more public

Wed, Jan 15, 2025

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‘Huge numbers may be pushed into dire poverty or starvation…we need to secure them’Subscriber Only

April 16,2020 04:59:00 AM

Amartya Sen, Raghuram Rajan, Abhijit Banerjee write: The unexpected loss of income and savings can have serious consequences, even if the meals are secured for now: farmers need money to buy seeds and fertilizer for the next planting season; shopkeepers need to decide how they will fill their shelves again

Fri, Apr 17, 2020

Amartya Sen writes: Overcoming a pandemic may look like fighting a war, but the real need is far from thatSubscriber Only

April 08,2020 00:05:27 AM

Amartya Sen writes: Tackling a social calamity is not like fighting a war which works best when a leader can use top-down power to order everyone to do what the leader wants — with no need for consultation. In contrast, what is needed for dealing with a social calamity is participatory governance and alert public discussion.

Wed, Apr 08, 2020

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The isolationist view of the progress of knowledge is fundamentally defectiveSubscriber Only

January 08,2020 00:54:19 AM

Divisions, tensions and violence between groups and sects that political separatists promote not only damage our social lives, but also work as barriers to intellectual progress within as well as across nations.

Wed, Jan 08, 2020

Democracy demands more than the counting of votesSubscriber Only

May 29,2019 00:05:19 AM

Winning cannot be the only concern in fighting an election. It makes a big difference how the winners are viewed in the post-election world.

Wed, May 29, 2019

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Karl Marx 2.00Subscriber Only

May 05,2018 00:08:15 AM

Karl Marx's philosophy has often been narrowly defined as ideas being determined by economic conditions. In the bicentennial of his birth, it is important to recognise his focus on the two-way nature of that relationship

Sat, May 05, 2018

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Towards unfreedomSubscriber Only

July 04,2017 00:00:41 AM

There is little cogent or visionary opposition to the decimation of India’s secular and tolerant tradition

Tue, Jul 04, 2017

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Dissent and freedom in India: Full text of Amartya Sen’s lectureSubscriber Only

February 13,2016 00:00:06 AM

We have a tradition of tolerance and plurality. But we — and the courts — have to work hard to preserve it

Sat, Feb 13, 2016

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Conversations with Tavleen Singh and Pratap MehtaSubscriber Only

July 15,2015 00:05:16 AM

The pervasive elitism of higher education institutions has to be challenged. But their further decimation must also be resisted.

Sun, Jul 19, 2015

India,China and a growing gapSubscriber Only

June 21,2013 00:43:49 AM

Unlike India,China did not miss the lesson of Asian economic development,about the economic returns that come from bettering human lives

Fri, Jun 21, 2013

Progressive people in India spend too much time on perfect-world issuesSubscriber Only

August 08,2009 12:45:49 PM

Amartya Sen speaks to Mihir S. Sharma about his new book,his disagreement with John Rawlss ideally just society and Indias policy engineers

Sat, Aug 08, 2009

West is West, East is east and ever the twain have metSubscriber Only

June 11,2002 00:00:00 AM

I knew Daniel Pearl a little. He came to a talk of mine in Paris about two years ago, and we chatted afterwards. He knew then that he was so...

Tue, Jun 11, 2002