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The VC or any other senior official of the central university could not be reached for comments. Share Via Email   |  A+A A- By PTI KOLKATA: An organisation of the teachers of Visva-Bharati on Wednesday alleged that its Vice-Chancellor Prof Bidyut Chakraborty made baseless comments against economist Amartya Sen that the Nobel laureate urged him to stop hawker eviction drive from near his Santiniketan residence and introduced himself as a "Bharat Ratna during the phone call. Sudipta Bhattacharya, president of the Visva-Bharati Faculty Association, told PTI that Sen's faculty assistant ...

Amartya Sen A Selfish Person? Visva Bharati VC’s Remark Sparks Row Amartya Sen denies Visva Bharati VC’s claim that he had urged him not to evict hawkers near his ancestral home. PTI Snigdhendu Bhattacharya 2020-12-16T18:47:36+05:30 Amartya Sen A Selfish Person? Visva Bharati VC’s Remark Sparks Row outlookindia.com 2020-12-17T09:14:26+05:30 Did Visva Bharati (VB) Vice-Chancellor Bidyut Chakrabarty try to influence faculty members using an imaginary conversation with Amartya Sen? This question is doing the rounds after the surfacing of a letter in which Sen...

Nobel Laureate and economist Amartya Sen. File photo   | Photo Credit: Sampath Kumar G.P. Academic had claimed Nobel laureate spoke against eviction of hawkers by introducing himself as “Bharat Ratna Amartya Sen” Nobel laureate Amartya Sen has denied making any phone call — introducing himself as “Bharat Ratna Amartya Sen” — to Visva-Bharati Vice-Chancellor Bidyut Chakrabarty and requesting him not to evict hawkers around his Santiniketan house. On the evening of December 9, during a virtual meeting with over 350 faculty members, Prof. Chakrabarty openly made a claim that he h...