Amartya Sen warns against banning English

There is a news which says that the India Great Indian Socialist economist Amartya Sen warns banning English!.

But he could not do it against the socialism that killed or killing equally like the one by banning English.

 

Never thank an economist.........

In 2005, I bought the book of Professor Amartya Sen’s “The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity” but never crossed beyond the introduction for no reasons but for his muddled arguments which I read (reading even now) elsewhere. But I have read Mr Ramchandra Guha’s review with interest in the Economic and Political Weekly, October 8-14, 2005. 

Now there is one more review by Lalit Deshpande who writes:

• “I was quite intrigued by the reactions of several friends of mine to The Argumentative Indian. Many had started reading it but only a few could sustain their interest to the end. Those who, having started it, kept it away .for later reading found it repetitive and often detailing arguments too familiar to be rehearsed by a laurite. While some repetition was unavoidable, given the nature of the book, I should hate to think that the disappointment of my friends was widely shared. 
  
• Guha describes Sen as a Bengali cosmopolitan, Indian liberal, left-wing democrat and a broad-minded economist. I wouldn.t be surprised if, armed with Guha.s certification and Sen.s defence of multiple identities, some member of the SP (a flock of birds with saffron feathers), suspending temporarily his participation in the construction of the Temple, rushed to Harvard to put Sen on a head-shrinker.s couch for multiple personality disorder!” 
  

I have no doubt I will not read Lalit’s 17 page review titled “Thank You, Professor Sen” in the Indian Journal of Human Development, Vol. 1, No. 2, 2007

Poor India gift rich University!

It is not surprise, at least to me,  if India proves that it is the ugly socialist drama creator and gives gift to rich US University on the name of the real enemy of India’s poor. 

If he wanted to gift and name as “Amartya Sen Fellows” he should gift from his own packets. By no mean it should be gifted from tax payer’s money.

It may be biggest folly of India to do.

(Thanks to Jayakamal for via mail)

 

Amartya Sen’s dumb and rhetoric reasons

Here is what nagged economist Amartya Sen says in Time about the US elect-Obama Victory “The economic crisis has been caused by doctrinaire economic policies, and the solution calls for remedial actions that are reasoned — and seen to be reasoned, to generate confidence. In politics, the alienation of the world is not only because the U.S. has been so unilateral but also because the unilateral choices often have been so dumb”.