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One of the GREAT figures of India:
From Wikipedia:
Amartya Kumar Sen, (born 3 November 1933) is an Indian economist.
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He has made contributions to welfare economics, social choice theory, economic and social justice, economic theories of famines, and indexes of the measure of well-being of citizens of developing countries. He was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1998.
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He is currently the Thomas W. Lamont University Professor and Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Harvard University. He is also a senior fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows, distinguished fellow of All Souls College, Oxford and a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, where he previously served as Master from 1998 to 2004.[4][5] Sen is a member of the Advisory Board of Incentives for Global Health, the not-for-profit behind the Health Impact Fund. He is the first Indian and the first Asian academic to head an Oxbridge college. He also serves as the first Chancellor of the proposed Nalanda International University.[6][7]
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Sen's books have been translated into more than thirty languages over a period of forty years. He is a trustee of Economists for Peace and Security. In 2006, Time magazine listed him under "60 years of Asian Heroes"[8] and in 2010 included him in their "100 most influential persons in the world".[9] New Statesman listed him in their 2010 edition of "World's 50 Most Influential People Who Matter".[10] Sen was one of the 20 Nobel Laureates who signed the "Stockholm Memorandum" at the third Nobel Laureate Symposium on Global Sustainability in Stockholm, Sweden on 18 May 2011.[11]
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Don’t want Modi as my PM: Amartya Sen
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PTI and the The Hindu newspaper
Coming out strongly against Gujarat Chief Minister
Narendra Modi, Nobel laureate Amartya Sen on Monday said he does not
want him to become India’s prime minister as he does not have secular
credentials.
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The prominent economist also criticised Mr. Modi’s model of governance saying he did not approve of it.
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“Yes, I don’t want him,” Dr. Sen told CNN-IBN in reply to a question on whether he wanted him as his prime minister.
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“As an Indian citizen I don’t want Modi as my PM... He has not done enough to make minorities feel safe,” he said.
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On
being asked why he did not want so, Dr. Sen said, “He could have first
of all been more secular and he could have made the minority community
feel more secure.”
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“No, I don’t approve of it... I
don’t think the record is very good. I think I don’t have to be a member
of the minority in order to feel insecure... We Indians don’t want a
situation where the minority feel insecure and could legitimately think
that there was an organised violence against them in 2002. I think that
is a terrible record and I don’t think Indian Prime Minister as an
Indian citizen... Of who has that kind of record. No, I do not.”
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Dr.
Sen said physical infrastructure in Gujarat may be good but Mr. Modi
has not done enough for minorities or for the majority. He also said
that the Gujarat model needs to do much more on the health and education
sectors and bring equity.
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He said Mr. Modi could
have made the majority community feel that they are not maltreating the
minority and going against the long Indian tradition of being tolerant.
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“He
could have also taken both of the facts that Gujarat record in
education and healthcare is pretty bad and he has to concentrate on
that... as much as he is concentrating quietly as it has happened on
physical infrastructure,” the Nobel laureate said.
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BJP recently anointed Mr. Modi as chairman of its election campaign committee.
Keywords: Amartya Sen, Narendra Modi, 2014 parliamentary polls, BJP, prime ministerial candidate, Gujarat riots, Gujarat growth model
