A democratic government has to adhere to the 'niti' and 'nyaya' in delivering social justice and must respond to on-going priorities in public criticism and political condemnation, advised eminent economist and Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen.
What stood out in his 15-year journey as a member of the political executive at the Centre was his glowing record as India's most successful and effective finance minister. Both as prime minister and finance minister, he understood the importance of gradualism, except when the economy or the polity was in a crisis.
The economist was also critical of demonetisation and the way Good and Services Tax was implemented.
Amartya Sen, economist and a Nobel Prize winner in economics, has been felicitated with the National Medals of Arts and Humanities Award by United States President Barack Obama at a glittering White House function in Washington. "We even have an economist, which we don't always get on stage," Obama said, referring to 78-year-old Sen, before he presented the 2011 National Medal of Arts and National Humanities.
The inaugural meeting of the commission will be held at Marlborough House in London on Friday, Commonwealth Secretary-General Don McKinnon announced on Tuesday.
Calling Amartya Sen the 'greatest humanist' and a 'great thinker', French President Francois Hollande on Friday bestowed his country's highest decoration on the Nobel Prize-winning celebrated economist for his contributions to economics and philosophy.
Jagdish Bhagwati keeps the debate with the Nobel Laureate raging in this interview with Sheela Bhatt.
India has done badly on three issues: fighting hunger, providing adequate health, and gender inequality, says the Nobel Laureate.
'We have to think about getting our priorities right. I think we should be in a position to make public understand about the real debate'
Nobel Laureate and eminent Indian-American economist Amartya Sen will receive an honorary degree from the prestigious Johns Hopkins University.
He felt particularly upset with the Left parties protesting on issues such as cooking gas and electricity prices and 'aam admi' pursuits rather than the broader picture.
He said while there were unwilling land losers, there were others who lost the opportunity of being employed in industry.
Speaking on the inaugural session of the 22nd Industrial India Trade Fair, Bhattacharya said, "We are in a grave economic crisis and developed countries of US and economies of EU are in doldrums and nobody knows when the situation will stabilise.
'It is sad for the country and it is sad for the government of the country too,' says the Nobel Laureate.
'It has made minorities' position uncertain,' he said.
Former President APJ Abdul Kalam's letter, which he sent to Foreign Minister S M Krishna in last July, has now come into public domain, slamming Nobel Laureate economist Amartya Sen for forcing him out of his brainchild project of the Nalanda University in Bihar as its first visitor.
Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen on Friday said it would be wrong on the part of West Bengal government if it gave too much emphasis on private healthcare delivery system.
Economics Nobel Laureates Amartya Sen and Joseph Stiglitz have been handpicked by French President Nicolas Sarkozy to advise France on the way in which it calculates its growth.
Amartya Sen will be an advisor the French government, while American Joseph Stiglitz will be chairman of the committee of experts appointed to oversee the reform process.
The government needs to allocate more funds for basis amenities like primary education and healthcare in order to attain its inclusive growth target, noted economist and Nobel laureate Amartya Sen said on Wednesday. "Fear of wastage stops the government from spending too much on education and healthcare," Sen said, adding the overall economic growth cannot be enough in itself if these resources are not properly developed.
The National Association of Software and Services Companies on Thursday announced the winners of the Nasscom Global Leadership Awards 2007.
The economist said it was wrong to portray India's governmental experience as a complete failure.
Muhammad Yunus proved that he was neither an armchair economist nor a slogan mongering political activist, but a doer destined to do what Mahatma Gandhi said -- to remove every tear from every eye, recalls Rup Narayan Das.
The latest to take up the matter and join issue with the ministry is none other than Nobel laureate Amartya Sen, who sent a message from Kolkata to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh last week, asking him not to allow a proposal to serve biscuits and pre-packaged food to pre-school children. Sen also asked the PM to prevent the move to replace cooked food with packaged food as part of the mid-day meal scheme in elementary schools.
The state government has begun the process to acquire land for the university.
Nobel laureate Amartya Sen on Monday sought to blame the opposition for disruption in Parliament, saying they were "bursting debates" and "killing arguments" in the House as he backed the Food Security Bill in its present form.
Other speakers will include CK Prahalad, Karan Billimoria and Apoorva Bagri.
Nobel laureate Amartya Sen has stressed on the need for a firm recognition of the right to food and a comprehensive legislation to guarantee it to everybody.
The noted economist said in the letter that his father had purchased free-hold land from the market and not from Visva-Bharati - to add to their homestead and he has been paying taxes for them.
A major slugfest erupted on Thursday over Bharatiya Janata Party MP Chandan Mitra's demand for stripping Nobel laureate Amartya Sen of the Bharat Ratna award and the economist offering to return it if Atal Bihari Vajpayee asks him to do so.
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Technology can certainly help the spreading of education, for example in making the schooling of maths easier and faster
Sen also observed that invasion of Iraq itself was a 'grave mistake.'
Doctors said it was due to dehydration.
Speaking on the sidelines of a foundation stone laying ceremony of at Trishundi in Amethi, Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde on Thursday disapproved of Bharatiya Janata Party Member of Parliament Chandan Mitra's demand of stripping economist Amartya Sen of the Bharat Ratna and went on to endorse the views of the Nobel laureate against Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi.
Amartya Sen -- Nobel Laureate, former Master of Trinity College in Cambridge and Thomas W Lamont University Professor at Harvard University -- has squarely rejected the notion of using an indefinite fast as a tool to eradicate corruption.
Janata Dal-United president Sharad Yadav on Tuesday welcomed Nobel laureate Amartya Sen's comment that he does not want Narendra Modi to be the country's prime minister and said he agreed with the renowned economist's views.
In the documentary, Sen speaks of social choice theory, development economics, philosophy and the rise of right wing nationalism across the world including India.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has asked state ministers to begin a sit-in outside Nobel laureate Amartya Sen's residence in Santiniketan in Birbhum district to protest against the Visva-Bharati's eviction notice, an official said.
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