Visva-Bharati University Alumni: Amartya Sen, Suchitra Mitra, Gayatri Devi, Savitri Devi, Shivani, Giuseppe Tucci, Mahasweta Devi, Syed Mujtaba Ali, M

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 25. Chapters: Amartya Sen, Suchitra Mitra, Gayatri Devi, Savitri Devi, Shivani, Giuseppe Tucci, Mahasweta Devi, Syed Mujtaba Ali, Mukul Dey, Kanika Banerjee, Dhirendra Nath Ganguly, Ruma Guha Thakurta, Ananda Samarakoon, Lokenath Bhattacharya, Rezwana Chowdhury Banya, Shayan Chowdhury, Moriz Winternitz, Himani Bannerji. Excerpt: Amartya Sen, CH (Bengali: , translit. Omorto Shen; born 3 November 1933) is an Indian economist who was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions to welfare economics and social choice theory, and for his interest in the problems of society's poorest members. Sen is best known for his work on the causes of famine, which led to the development of practical solutions for preventing or limiting the effects of real or perceived shortages of food. He is currently the Thomas W. Lamont University Professor and Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Harvard University. He is also a senior fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows, distinguished fellow of All Souls College, Oxford and a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, where he previously served as Master from 1998 to 2004. He is the first Indian and the first Asian academic to head an Oxbridge college. Amartya Sen's books have been translated into more than thirty languages over a period of forty years. He is a trustee of Economists for Peace and Security. In 2006, Time magazine listed him under 60 years of Asian Heroes and in 2010 included him in their 100 most influential persons in the world. New Statesman listed him in their 2010 edition of 'World's 50 Most Influential People Who Matter'. Sen was born to a Bengali Hindu family of Santiniketan, West Bengal, India. His ancestral home was in Wari, Dhaka, then part of India; now Bangladesh which became a new country in 1971 following its separation from Pakistan which, in t...