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The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1998 was awarded to Amartya Sen "for his contributions to welfare economics"

A historic historian, Guha remains India's pride for another reason— as a diasporic voice publishing in his regional language and speaking to his cultural roots through decades of living abroad.

Taking stock and recognising their achievements is essential to understand what we miss out on when institutions remain blinkered.

The UP election will be one in which voters are not choosing between two different sets of answers to the same questions, but between two different sets of questions.

Home in the World; A Memoir Amartya Sen Allen Lane An imprint of Penguin Books Amartya Sen takes us on journeys all the way to an intellectually endowed horizon. For people who belong to his generation as also the one which followed his, Home in the World is a recapitulation of the ideas which... Read more »

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 w...

Sunil Kumar (1956-2021): A historian who was passionate about reading Delhi’s past from its present His big book was ‘The Emergence of the Delhi Sultanate, 1192-1286’. Sunil Kumar. | Chapati Mystery I never thought I would write about my friend Saddy, Professor Sunil Kumar of Delhi University, in the past tense. A big, loose-limbed athlete, who played basketball not only for his college, but for years afterwards with kids much younger than him in the playgrounds of Sak...