"No famine has ever taken place in the history of the world in a functioning democracy," observed Nobel Prize-winning ...
A Master’s student from Kolkata on the Bengali life in NYC, from Amartya Sen and Durga Puja to kathi rolls, and more ...
The UGC was for long considered essentially a funding body, not a watchdog over universities, let alone a body dictating to ...
With the rapid modernisation and movement towards the digital, certain spaces become a material manifestation of culture and thought. One such place is Kolkata’s iconic College Street.
With high public debt, it is difficult for the Centre and State governments to choose between fiscal prudence and high ...
Mr. Ahamed is a researcher at the Amartya Sen-founded Pratichi Trust and is the convener of Know Your Neighbour, an initiative that aims at promoting communal harmony in West Bengal through ...
In fact, many a Cambridge student will proudly reminisce that they went to Trinity College, where Amartya Sen (as did Manmohan Singh and Rehman Sobhan) had also been. Dartmouth or Oberlin in the ...
It is with much sadness that I learned of the passing of my good friend Manmohan Singh. We have known each other since 1955, ...
Closer home, Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen's view is equally relevant: ‘Whatever you can say about India, the opposite is also true.’ The fact is, India has never been easy to read. It’s a ...
it is useful to remind ourselves of Nobel laureate Amartya Sen’s admonition, “India is the only country in the world which is trying to become a global economic power with an uneducated and un ...