Amartya Sen's 'The Argumentative Indian'

Digital Drifter · Jul 4th, 2005, 00:54

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/revie...519984,00.html

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This needs saying at the outset. In itself, it might seem like an unremarkable fact, but it actually is not: Amartya Sen is a citizen of India. While most of his countrymen who have been able to leave India for a long time try their best to become citizens of the country they might have gone to (Britain, America, Canada, Australia), Sen, a man whom Cambridge and Harvard are said to have fought over for the privilege of offering an appointment, resolutely retains his blue Indian passport after half a century of towering intellectual achievement across the world.

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might be useful to people who want to correct or confirm their stereotyping of all things Indian.

Mandsaur · Jul 4th, 2005, 01:55

Looks interesting. Hopefully his book will get a US release soon...

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