Tag: Amartya Sen

VBU land dispute: Mamata stands by Amartya Sen

CM hands over papers of land deed of Pratichi to Sen

January 31, 2023

VBU land dispute: Trinamul leaders support Amartya Sen

Students of VBU saidthat very soon thetenure of the presentvice-chancellor will beover and ProfessorBidyut Chakraborty isdeliberately picking upsuch controversies toget a fresh extension

January 29, 2023

Amartya Sen never got any Nobel prize: Visva-Bharati VC

The estate department of the VBU has already served a notice to the Nobel laureate at his house in Pratichi and has urged him to return back 13 decimal of land and has also proposed a joint inspection and survey.

January 28, 2023

VBU notice to Amartya Sen on unauthorised land

On 24 January, the joint registrar of the estate office of VBU has issued a notice regarding leased plot number 201 at Sripalli, Shantiniketan (mouza Surul, JL-104) stating that it has been found from physical survey and land records that 13 decimals of land belong to Visva-Bharati in LR Plot number 1900/ 2487.

January 26, 2023

Sen’s prognosis

The fineprint of his speech must be that the clash of civilizations is currently seldom more acute anywhere in the world than it is in India.

July 6, 2022

Living with Hunger

Hunger is preventable. It is not difficult to end hunger in India. It is not like that we don’t have the food to feed the hungry. India produces more than enough food to provide for all its citizens. It is primarily a problem of general poverty. The problem lies in access to food.

November 11, 2021

Reflections of a Master Mind

As an economist, Sen is reckoned as one of the great minds who has enriched the world of ideas and actions, augmented by his erudition in fields as diverse as Sanskrit grammar and literature, mathematics and philosophy

September 1, 2021

Acquiring and sharing knowledge is more important: Amartya Sen

"Even if we put emphasis on the evaluation we must remember it is the last thing. Acquiring and sharing knowledge comes first. There are reasons to believe that the issue should be seen from different sides and perspectives," Amartya Sen.

August 23, 2021

Amartya Sen truly at ‘Home in the World’ as his memoir reveals

"Amartya Sen is one of the most distinguished minds of our time (who) enjoyably mixes moments of profundity with flashes of mischievous provocation"

June 9, 2021

Stunted children

Malnutrition has an irreversible effect on health and human development. The first Golden 1000 Days of a child’s life are a unique period of opportunity when the foundations of optimum health, growth, and neurodevelopment across the lifespan is established.

May 16, 2021

Visva-Bharati University continues to call Amartya Sen illegal holder of its land

Visva-Bharati registrar Ashok Mahato on Saturday asked for measurements university campus and the land belonging to Nobel laureate Amartya Sen.

January 17, 2021

West Bengal Congres chief Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury attacks BJP for ‘insulting’ Amartya Sen

Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury's remark has come when Nobel laureate Amartya Sen has been engaged in a tussle with Visva-Bharati University over land holding.

December 31, 2020

TMC’s Mahua Moitra attacks BJP, RSS after Dilip Ghosh ridicules Amartya Sen’s ‘love jihad’ remark

Hitting below the belt, Dilip Ghosh had said that Amartya Sen didn’t have any moral right to speak because he had married three women of three faiths.

December 29, 2020

Amartya Sen married thrice, left India, has no right to speak: BJP’s Dilip Ghosh

Dilip Ghosh's remark has come at the time when Amartya Sen was accused of illegally registering a part of Visva-Bharati University's land under his own name.

December 29, 2020

V-B debunks Sen

The Nobel laureate has succinctly exposed the malaise that has permeated the central university with the statement that “a big gap exists between the Santiniketan culture and that of the Visva-Bharati vice-chancellor, empowered as he is by the central government in Delhi, with its growing control over Bengal”.

December 29, 2020

Endemic deprivation

The malnutrition paradox is that there are some countries that have become economic powerhouses with persistently high numbers of malnourished children, while other countries with low levels of national income have shown an appreciable progress in combating malnutrition by investing in cost-effective, proven interventions that ensure children's access to proper nutrition.

July 17, 2020

Malnutrition & Covid-19

Covid-19 is the most contagious disease we have ever encountered. At the time of writing, the Covid-19 infected 41.5 + lakh in 187 countries/regions with deaths exceeding 284124. The sharp rise in infections and deaths has caught many countries unprepared. The dexterity with which influenza viruses change their coat proteins' can hamper the development of vaccines against them.

May 18, 2020