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  Nobel laureate Amartya Sen says 'idea of turning India into Hindu Rashtra is inappropriate'

  India | June 27, 2024 9:22 IST

  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.

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  Amartya Sen's daughter Nandana Deb Sen denies his death rumours, says 'Baba is totally fine'

  India | October 10, 2023 18:30 IST

  Amid reports that Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen died, his daughter Nandana Deb Sen dismissed the news claiming the veteran economist is totally fine.

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  Indian govt's schizophrenia led to COVID ravages: Amartya Sen

  India | June 05, 2021 10:17 IST

  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.

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  ‘For a protest, opposition unity is important’: Amartya Sen on CAA protests

  India | January 13, 2020 23:48 IST

  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

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  Amartya Sen criticises police role in JNU violence, says CAA should be scrapped

  India | January 09, 2020 0:03 IST

  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".  

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  Abhijit Banerjee, Amartya Sen's faces to figure on Presidency's wall

  India | October 17, 2019 20:51 IST

  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.  

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  Amartya Sen forgetful of India's cultural ethos: BJP

  India | July 06, 2019 21:21 IST

  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.

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  Amartya Sen terms general category reservation ‘muddled thinking’; questions political, economic impact

  India | January 10, 2019 7:49 IST

  The economist said the Modi government was successful in maintaining the economic growth India achieved before they came to power.

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  2019 Lok Sabha polls: Non-communal forces should come together to oppose right-wing forces, says Amartya Sen

  India | August 26, 2018 17:22 IST

  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..."

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  Non-communal, non-BJP parties should ally for Lok Sabha elections 2019: Amartya Sen

  August 26, 2018 8:12 IST

  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."

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  Censor Board orders to mute ‘cow’, ‘Gujarat’, ‘Hindutva’ in film on Amartya Sen, sparks row

  Bollywood | July 13, 2017 7:26 IST

  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

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  ‘Hard work more powerful than Harvard’: Modi’s veiled dig at Amartya Sen on note ban

  Politics | March 01, 2017 18:43 IST

  Prime Minister Narendra Modi today took potshots at economists saying that hard work is more powerful than Harvard.

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  West Bengal BJP president Dilip Ghosh questions Amartya Sen's contribution to nation, faces flak

  Politics | February 12, 2017 8:12 IST

  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.

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  Ranked ‘third worst’, Air India tweets Amartya Sen’s note praising airline

  January 10, 2017 15:38 IST

  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

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  Nobel laureate Amartya Sen slams ‘demonetisation’, says it declares all Indians as ‘possible crooks’

  November 26, 2016 17:05 IST

  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”.

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  Ratan Tata asks people of India to support PM Modi on ‘demonetisation’

  November 26, 2016 16:41 IST

  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.

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  From corporate to politicos, who said what on Raghuram Rajan's exit

  June 20, 2016 16:04 IST

  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

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  India losing a skillful economic thinker: Amartya Sen on Raghuram Rajan's exit

  June 19, 2016 11:57 IST

  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

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  Caste is anti-national as it divides India, says Amartya Sen

  India | June 17, 2016 10:05 IST

  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

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  Indians have been 'much too tolerant' of intolerance: Amartya Sen

  India | February 13, 2016 9:17 IST

  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