Visva-Bharati’s eviction order against Nobel laureate Amartya Sen, to vacate 13 decimal of 1.38 acres of land on the university campus last year, was illegal, the district court in West Bengal’s Birbhum said on Wednesday. | Latest News India
The issue has become controversial with the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) alleging that Sen was victimised for criticising Centre’s policies | Latest News India
Chakrabarty’s five-year term will end on Wednesday. In a five-page letter written in Bengali, Chakrabarty quoted Visva-Bharati's founder Rabindranath Tagore and alleged that some people used the Nobel Laureate's philosophy for “their own interests”.
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1998 was awarded to Amartya Sen "for his contributions to welfare economics"