the argumentative indian by amartya sen summary

Just got the book from India, today! 10:38 PM gs said. In any case, I'm looking forward to the book as well. If you're eager to get a preview, you can read a few of them in The New Republic's archives. Who knows, maybe even they'll get more traffic ? Btw, Sen's book seems to be mostly a collection of various essays he's written over the last few years. At least a few traditions are still being taught by a few pandits. Singh: '.Central to his notion of India, as the title suggests, is the long tradition of argument and public debate.' Yeah, I hope it gains popularity in India and induces at least some to rigorously study the various traditions generating all that argument and counter-argument. Nanopolitan has collected a few links where people (including me) are talking about the Argumentative Indian. I have purchased many of my 'only in the UK' books on -T 10:29 AM Anup said. Its fast, very similar in price, and your Amazon US account works there. In particular because CD's here sometimes have their content edited (like MIA's Arular). In India, it looks like the book is available for Rs. You might be able to buy it straight from Amazon UK I'm not 100% sure it will work, though. Unfortunately, Amazon is saying that the U.S.

Central to his notion of India, as the title suggests, is the long tradition of argument and public debate, of intellectual pluralism and generosity that informs India's history.īet you didn't know that bit about him going to Santiniketan every year? There is a nice article from a 1999 issue of Frontline about it. In this superb collection of essays, Sen smashes quite a few stereotypes and places the idea of India and Indianness in its rightful, deserved context. There can, then, be few people better equipped than this Lamont University Professor at Harvard to write about India and the Indian identity, especially at a time when the stereotype of India as a land of exoticism and mysticism is being supplanted with the stereotype of India as the back office of the world. One of the most influential public thinkers of our times is strongly rooted in the country in which he grew up he is deeply engaged with its concerns.

In Santiniketan, the former Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, can be seen on a bicycle, friendly and unassuming, chatting with the locals and working for a trust he has set up with the money from his Nobel Prize. Here is the way The Guardian sets up their review:Įvery year, the 1998 winner of the Nobel Prize for economics returns to Santiniketan, the tiny university town 100-odd miles from Calcutta. Amartya Sen's new book of essays looks like a must-get.

The argumentative indian by amartya sen summary