[applause] we ll come. my name is sylvia and i am a journalist and i am known days i have known him longer than i should tell you and he is one of one of the most remarkable men and exciting fingers i have ever known and the idiot of justice is one of the most remarkable books that any of us will ever read. i would like to thank jackson and booksellers and the harvard university press for organizing this event and all of you for coming out and enjoying us and to retain so patiently. i hate it when someone says so and so needs no introduction. of course, most of you know, a great many things about the professor but i always felt that ideas are so much easier to appreciate and to enjoy if we can picture a little of the circumstances and experiences which help to animate them and that is what i would like to do in my introduction. most of you know, that professor sen holds a chair at harvard nobel prize in economics, master of trinity college, he writes a great deal for the new