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‘Your strong voice a tremendous source of strength for me’: Amartya Sen writes back to Mamata I am very happy indeed to get your supportive letter. I am not only most touched, but also very reassured that despite the busy life you have to lead, you can find time for reassuring people under attack. Amartya Sen wrote. Updated: December 28, 2020 8:04:01 pm
West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee had written to Nobel laureate Amartya Sen. (File photo)
Referring to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee as “Dear Mamata”, Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen has written back to her and thanked her for supporting people like him who are under attack.
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A group of artistes, litterateurs and academicians came together to show their support to Nobel award-winning economist Amartya Sen outside Academy of Fine Arts in Kolkata on Sunday. The group of intellectuals, considered close to the Trinamool Congress, condemned the Visva-Bharati University’s move to name Sen in its list of “illegal occupants” of the campus land.
Earlier this week, Visva-Bharati University Vice-Chancellor Bidyut Chakrabarty in a letter to the state government had named Sen among those who have “illegally occupied plots on the campus” – a charge denied by the Nobel laureate who has said that the land in question was registered in records on a long-term lease.