When politics gets the better of economics

New Straits Times | September 8, 2008| | Copyright

Mahendra Ved
New Straits Times
09-08-2008
When politics gets the better of economics
Byline: Mahendra Ved
Edition: Main/Lifestyle
Section: Main Section

GOPAL Krishna Gokhale, a leading light of India's freedom movement against the British, once said: "What Bengal thinks today, the rest of India thinks tomorrow."

Such was the awesome contribution and reputation of Bengal then. From Kolkata, the British ruled from the Persian Gulf to the Straits of Malacca.
Bengal produced South Asia's first Nobel laureate, the poet Rabindranath Tagore, and after its division, two more, economist Amartya Sen and ...

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