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‘Was Not In India,’ Amartya Sen Debunks Visva Bharati VC’s claim Over Shops Row Amartya Sen claims that he was abroad when VC received call asking him not to remove shops in Santiniketan. File photo Snigdhendu Bhattacharya 2021-01-01T16:14:09+05:30 ‘Was Not In India,’ Amartya Sen Debunks Visva Bharati VC’s claim Over Shops Row outlookindia.com 2021-01-01T16:16:01+05:30 Also read Nobel laureate economist Amartya Sen has said that he was not in India in June 2019 when, according to Visva-Bharati University’s vice-chancellor Bidyut Chakrabarty, the ...

Updated Dec 28, 2020 | 22:14 IST Mamata Banerjee will hold a roadshow in Bolpur on Tuesday, just days after Amit Shah's roadshow there. TMC tries to evoke the Tagore pride to corner BJP in consonance with their outsider narrative. Mamata's weapon to fight BJP is Tagore legacy   Key Highlights Mamata all set to lead a roadshow in Tagore's Shantiniketan to reassert her outsider narrative against BJP The chief minister was not invited at the Tagore's Visva-Bharati centenary celebrations Mamata laments Visva-Bharati losing Tagore's ideals under BJP Kolkata: I...

Nobel laureate Amartya Sen and Visva Bharati University engage in war of words over 'illegal land grab' In 2006, Prof Sen requested the then vice-chancellor for transfer of the 99-year-old lease-hold land to his name which was accepted by the Executive Council but the excess land was never returned to the university. Karnataka govt imposes night curfew till Jan 2 In the latest row over 'illegal land grab' in the Visva-Bharati, the varsity has accused Nobel laureate and eminent economist Prof Amartya Sen of wrongly occupying the land on the campus. In a letter written to the West Bengal govern...

Amartya Sen (PTI) NEW DELHI: Visva-Bharati has written to the West Bengal government alleging that dozens of its plots have been recorded wrongly in favour of private parties with the list of unauthorised occupants prepared by the varsity including Nobel laureate and eminent economist Prof Amartya Sen. The girls’ hostel, academic department, office, even the VC’s official bungalow find mention in the list of plots recorded incorrectly. The university alleges that due to wrong recording of ownership in the government’s record-of-right (RoR), the university’s land has been illegally tr...

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 ...