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That Singular Fallacy Amartya Sen questions the politics of one-dimensional identity in a world where religion is a war cry
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IDENTITY AND VIOLENCE: THE ILLUSION OF DESTINY
By Amartya Sen
Allen Lane
Price: Rs 295; Pages: 215
Who are we? The question was there much before Samuel Huntington
chose it as a title for his provocative book on American identity. It
was there in the passion plays of history. It was a question engraved
on mass graves, and inscribed on victors' flags. We heard this in a
million national accents, we heard it as the last words of the dying
and the fleeing, we heard it,...
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Global Indian ; A brilliant economist, Amartya Sen has forced the engagement of the world with poverty, inequality and injustice while also pointing to the moral compulsion and practical means of rectifying these social ills.
India Today
; AMARTYA SEN ECONOMIST, 1933 Amartya Sen is only 14 years older than independent India so it is no surprise that his iconic status is so considerably wound up in the hopes, anxieties and pride of a young post-colonial country. His personal triumphs have been, in large measure, also national
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A question of fame and identity; Amartya Sen's approach is philosophical and he is reluctant to provide answers, writes Maureen Isaacson.(Dispatches)
The Sunday Independent (South Africa)
; Amartya Sen, the Nobel economics laureate and philosopher who came to South Africa last week to deliver the Nadine Gordimer lecture at the University of the Witwatersrand - on poverty, war and peace - has the charisma of a rock star. This idea makes him laugh but he has surely noticed that
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The Mother Teresa of economics Another award for Amartya Sen (right), with West Bengal's Chief Minister BIKAS DAS/AP
The Independent - London
; ... likes to see itself: cultured, brilliant, loquacious, homespun, a true heir of the 18th-century Bengal Renaissance. When the news about the Nobel came through, an illuminated float depicting the professor receiving his prize was commissioned for the city ...
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EDITORIAL: Amartya Sen and his economic sensibilities, NATION
The Nation (Thailand)
; The Nation (Thailand) 10-21-1998 A professor walked into a class of fresh and eager students who had enrolled in Economics 101. ''Those of you who had come to study economics because you want to get rich one day he said, ''please put up your hand A few sheepishly identified themselves. ''You've
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Sen's Sensibility.(Review)
The Nation
; DEVELOPMENT AS FREEDOM. By Amartya Sen. Knopf. 304 pp. $27.50. Some years ago, I had the good fortune to befriend an extended family who lived in a poor shantytown in the southern reaches of Santiago, Chile. I got to know the Gamboas through their oldest son, Luis, a bricklayer in his 20s who had
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