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Amartya Sen Quotes

Indian - Philosopher | November 3, 1933 -

The curriculum of the school did not neglect India's cultural, analytical and scientific heritage, but was very involved also with the rest of the world.

School World Rest Heritage India

It is also very engaging - and a delight - to go back to Bangladesh as often as I can, which is not only my old home, but also where some of my closest friends and collaborators live and work.

Work Home Live Friends Back I Can

When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions, including literacy, basic health care and gender equity, aimed specifically at India and Bangladesh.

Opportunity Health Me Care Award

People's identities as Indians, as Asians, or as members of the human race, seemed to give way - quite suddenly - to sectarian identification with Hindu, Muslim, or Sikh communities.

People Way Race Human Human Race

While I am interested both in economics and in philosophy, the union of my interests in the two fields far exceeds their intersection.

I Am Economics Philosophy Two Fields

I was born in a University campus and seem to have lived all my life in one campus or another.

Life My Life Born University Lived

The student community of Presidency College was also politically most active.

Community College Student Active

I left Delhi, in 1971, shortly after Collective Choice and Social Welfare was published in 1970.

Choice Welfare Collective Left Delhi

I have not had any serious non-academic job.

Job Serious Any Had

From the mid-1970s, I also started work on the causation and prevention of famines.

Work Prevention Started Also

But the idea that I should be a teacher and a researcher of some sort did not vary over the years.

Teacher Over Years Idea Some Did

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