At 23, Amartya Sen finished the work for his PhD in one year and then set up an economics department
An excerpt from the Nobel Laureate’s memoir, ‘Home in the World’. Amartya Sen receiving the Nobel Prize from Swedish King Carl Gustaf in 1998. | Peter Mueller / Reuters
By June 1956, at the end of my first year as a research student, I had a set of chapters that looked as if they could form a dissertation. A substantial number of economists at various universities were work ing then on different ways of choosing between techniques of production. Some were particularly focused on maximising the total value of the output produced, whereas others wanted to maximise the surplus that was generated, and there were also some profit maximisers.
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Dr Hameeda Hossain honoured with 2021 BDI Lifetime Achievement Award
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The Bangladesh Development Initiative (BDI), a non-partisan research and advocacy group of independent scholars based in the United States, has announced that Dr Hameeda Hossain is the recipient of the 2021 BDI Lifetime Achievement Award.
Established in 2012, this award is designed to honor outstanding individuals or organizations who, through their scholarly and/or policy and civic engagements, have contributed significantly to understanding the challenges, and the ideals that have led to the development of Bangladesh and have improved the quality of life for its citizens.
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Home / Culture / Books / Kunal Basu chats with Arindam Sil on politics, publishing and the pandemic Kunal Basu chats with Arindam Sil on politics, publishing and the pandemic ‘Back in the day, elections would be a sort of a festival… nowadays it has become more about a gnawing sense of terror’ Priyam Marik | | Published 18.02.21, 02:16 PM
The political is always personal, especially for someone who has spent a considerable part of his life in the political cauldron of West Bengal.
Born to parents who were ardent Communists, bilingual author Kunal Basu who has written several novels in English, including
The Miniaturist, Kalkatta and