Facts about Amartya Sen

Occup.	Philosopher
From	India
Born	November 3, 1933
Age	91 years

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Amartya Sen is a famous Philosopher from India, he/she is 91 years old and still alive, born November 3, 1933.

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He/she is born under the zodiac scorpio, who is known for Transient, Self-Willed, Purposeful, Unyielding. Our collection contains 11 quotes who is written / told by Amartya.

11 Famous quotes by Amartya Sen

"While I am interested both in economics and in philosophy, the union of my interests in the two fields far exceeds their intersection"

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"I was born in a University campus and seem to have lived all my life in one campus or another"

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"From the mid-1970s, I also started work on the causation and prevention of famines"

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"But the idea that I should be a teacher and a researcher of some sort did not vary over the years"

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"I left Delhi, in 1971, shortly after Collective Choice and Social Welfare was published in 1970"

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"I have not had any serious non-academic job"

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"When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions, including literacy, basic health care and gender equity, aimed specifically at India and Bangladesh"

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"The student community of Presidency College was also politically most active"

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"The curriculum of the school did not neglect India's cultural, analytical and scientific heritage, but was very involved also with the rest of the world"

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"People's identities as Indians, as Asians, or as members of the human race, seemed to give way - quite suddenly - to sectarian identification with Hindu, Muslim, or Sikh communities"

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"It is also very engaging - and a delight - to go back to Bangladesh as often as I can, which is not only my old home, but also where some of my closest friends and collaborators live and work"

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