New Delhi: 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.
Sen, an eminent economist, said the essence of democracy is to have arguments and there is a need for skillful presentations of what the issues are.
At a press conference along with activists on the Food Security Bill in New Delhi, he said, "There are things on which opposition may have different views. They should debate the issue...rather than disrupting proceedings. In Parliament they are killing arguments. If the Opposition succeeds in bursting Parliamentary debate, they should be held responsible it."
Sen said he is "shocked at media being not able to play up the issue of non-discussion in Parliament"....
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Patna: Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar on Friday expressed confidence that work of Nalanda International University would not get stalled after constitution of Nalanda monitoring committee by the Centre and appointment of Nobel prize winner and economist Amartya Sen as the Chancellor of the university. With Prime Minister Manmohan Singh specially taking interest and constituting a monitoring committee to oversee the work of Nalanda International University and also after appointment...
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Washington: Amartya Sen, Indian economist and 1998 Nobel Prize winner in economics, has been felicitated with the National Medals of Arts and Humanities award by the US 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. "Sen is...
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New Delhi: US President Barack Obama will award nine scholars the 2011 National Medal for Humanities including India's Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen. Sen will be felicitated for his insights into the causes of poverty, famine, and injustice. "By applying philosophical thinking to questions of policy, he has changed how standards of living are measured and increased our understanding of how to fight hunger," said a White House statement. The...
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New Delhi: After honouring Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama last year, Jamia Milia Islamia will this year honour economist Amartya Sen, another Nobel Laureate, with an honorary doctorate. Sen, whose work on welfare economics, particularly on the causes of famine, won him a Nobel Prize in Economics in 1998, will be conferred with an honorary degree on Friday. Though the University wanted to award the doctorate to the Harvard...
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Kolkata: Amartya Sen and Partha Dasgupta received it and now Mahima Khanna is basking in its glory. The 23-year-old Kolkata girl is the third Indian recipient of the prestigious Stevenson prize for economics from Cambridge university. Mahima said, "It's an astounding feeling to have achieved one of the milestones that these people have achieved." But it wasn't an easy life for Mahima. She is a single parent child it was...
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Chennai: Nobel laureate Amartya Sen Tuesday said restoring Bihar's Nalanda University - the world's oldest - was a difficult task, but progress was being made. "The university is being re-started right now, and since I happen to have the diffcult task of chairing its interim governing body, I am finding out how hard it is to re-establish a university after a 800 year hiatus," Sen said at the 98th Indian...
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Chasing growth is "stupid" says Professor Amartya Sen. That he is obsessed with growth is "nonsense" says Professor Jagdish Bhagwati. At the time when the ...
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Karan Thapar: Hello and welcome to Devil's advocate. At the end of the year that seems to be one of the most troubled in recent times, we look back at 2010 with the Nobel Laureate, economist and philosopher Amartya Sen. Professor Sen, you've come to India at a time when country is particularly troubled by the spate of scams and scandals that have in a sense come to obsess public...
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