Jagat kutir

Description

Where is home? Amartya Sen has many answers to the question Dhaka, where he spent much of his childhood: Santiniketan, where he stayed with his parents and grandparents, spent his schooling; Calcutta, where he started studying economics in college, joined the student movement; and Cambridge, where he arrived at the age of nineteen, to study at Trinity College. Amartya Sen captures the atmosphere of each of these places impeccably. The open atmosphere of the school in Santiniketan, the lively chatter of coffee houses in Calcutta during his college life, deep discussions with eminent economists and philosophers in Cambridge, all these played a big role in broadening the horizon of his thinking. He returned home in 1963 after spending several years in Europe and America. He was thirty then. A precious phase of life has ended. Jagat Kuti shows how Amartya Sen’s life experiences, economics, philosophy, identity, community, famine. gender inequality, developed his ideas on topics as diverse as social choice, reasoning, and public discourse. The joy of learning and the importance of friendship are revealed in this book. Above all, the aspects he emphasizes are – to make our thinking as liberal and expansive as possible, to practice human sympathy and empathy across national boundaries, and to find our home in the world.