Amartya Sen

'Indian mathematicians learned something from Babylonians, Greeks and Romans, they also taught some brilliantly new ideas to mathematicians elsewhere in the world.'

BY Amartya Sen 12 January 2015

Engagement with reasons of justice is particularly critical in identifying the overwhelming priorities that we have to acknowledge and overcome with total urgency. A good first step may be to think more clearly – and a little more often – about what

BY Amartya Sen 10 August 2008

Given what the country has done for Indian IT, it is not silly to ask: what specially can the IT industry do for India (other than what happens automatically without any deliberate pursuit of non-business ends)?

BY Amartya Sen 15 February 2007

It is surprising that independent India has not yet been able to rescind the colonial era monstrosity in the shape of Section 377, dating from 1861

BY Amartya Sen 15 September 2006

The world can become more secure and more fair only if we close the educational gaps, and remove the enormous disparities in educational access, inclusion and achievement.

BY Amartya Sen 3 November 2003

The protests against globalisation are often ungainly, ill-tempered, simplistic, frenzied and frantic, even highly disruptive. And yet, they also serve the function of questioning and disputing the unexamined contentment about the world in which we l

BY Amartya Sen 10 December 2002