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Home in the World A Memoir (Hardcover)

Where is 'home'? For Amartya Sen home has been many places - Dhaka in modern Bangladesh where he grew up, the village of Santiniketan where he was raised by his grandparents as much as by his parents, Calcutta where he first studied economics and was active in student movements, and Trinity College, Cambridge, to which he came aged nineteen. Sen brilliantly recreates the atmosphere in each of these. Central to his formation was the intellectually liberating school in Santiniketan founded by Rabindranath Tagore (who gave him his name Amartya) and enticing conversations in the famous Coffee House on College Street in Calcutta. As an undergraduate at Cambridge, he engaged with many of the leading figures of the day. This is a book of ideas - especially Marx, Keynes and Arrow - as much as of people and places. In one memorable chapter, Sen evokes 'the rivers of Bengal' along which he travelled with his parents between Dhaka and their ancestral villages. The historic culture of Bengal is wonderfully explored, as is the political inflaming of Hindu-Muslim hostility and the resistance to it. In 1943, Sen witnessed the Bengal famine and its disastrous development. Some of Sen's family were imprisoned for their opposition to British rule: not surprisingly, the relationship between Britain and India is another main theme of the book. Forty-five years after he first arrived at 'the Gates of Trinity', one of Britain's greatest intellectual foundations, Sen became its Master.
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Where is 'home'? For Amartya Sen home has been many places - Dhaka in modern Bangladesh where he grew up, the village of Santiniketan where he was raised by his grandparents as much as by his parents, Calcutta where he first studied economics and was active in student movements, and Trinity College, Cambridge, to which he came aged nineteen.

Sen brilliantly recreates the atmosphere in each of these. Central to his formation was the intellectually liberating school in Santiniketan founded by Rabindranath Tagore (who gave him his name Amartya) and enticing conversations in the famous Coffee House on College Street in Calcutta. As an undergraduate at Cambridge, he engaged with many of the leading figures of the day. This is a book of ideas - especially Marx, Keynes and Arrow - as much as of people and places.

In one memorable chapter, Sen evokes 'the rivers of Bengal' along which he travelled with his parents between Dhaka and their ancestral villages. The historic culture of Bengal is wonderfully explored, as is the political inflaming of Hindu-Muslim hostility and the resistance to it. In 1943, Sen witnessed the Bengal famine and its disastrous development. Some of Sen's family were imprisoned for their opposition to British rule: not surprisingly, the relationship between Britain and India is another main theme of the book. Forty-five years after he first arrived at 'the Gates of Trinity', one of Britain's greatest intellectual foundations, Sen became its Master.

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Writer

Amartya Sen

Publisher

Penguin Random House

ISBN

9781846144868

Language

English (US)

Country

India

Format

Hardcover

Pages

480

Amartya Sen

অমর্ত্য সেন (জন্ম: ৩রা নভেম্বর, ১৯৩৩) একজন নোবেল পুরস্কার বিজয়ী ভারতীয় বাঙালী অর্থনীতিবিদ ও দার্শনিক। দুর্ভিক্ষ, মানব উন্নয়ন তত্ত্ব, জনকল্যাণ অর্থনীতি ও গণদারিদ্রের অন্তর্নিহিত কার্যকারণ বিষয়ে গবেষণা এবং উদারনৈতিক রাজনীতিতে অবদান রাখার জন্য ১৯৯৮ সালে তিনি অর্থনৈতিক বিজ্ঞানে ব্যাংক অফ সুইডেন পুরস্কার (যা অর্থনীতির নোবেল পুরস্কার হিসেবে পরিচিত) লাভ করেন। অমর্ত্য সেনই জাতিসংঘের বিভিন্ন দেশের শিক্ষা এবং মানব সম্পদ উন্নয়ন সম্পর্কে ধারণা পাওয়ার জন্য মানব উন্নয়ন সূচক আবিষ্কার করেন। তিনিই প্রথম মার্কিন যুক্তরাষ্ট্রের নাগরিক না হয়েও ন্যাশনাল হিউম্যানিটিস মেডালে ভূষিত হন।