Nobel Laureate and economist Amartya Sen. File photo
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Sampath Kumar G.P.
Academic had claimed Nobel laureate spoke against eviction of hawkers by introducing himself as “Bharat Ratna Amartya Sen” Nobel laureate Amartya Sen has denied making any phone call introducing himself as “Bharat Ratna Amartya Sen” to Visva-Bharati Vice-Chancellor Bidyut Chakrabarty and requesting him not to evict hawkers around his Santiniketan house.
On the evening of December 9, during a virtual meeting with over 350 faculty members, Prof. Chakrabarty openly made a claim that he had received a call from Prof. Sen, who identified himself as “Bharat Ratna Amartya Sen” and requested that hawkers around his house not be evicted as his daughter, who visited Santiniketan often, would be inconvenienced.