Amartya Sen

Amartya Kumar Sen, the 3rd November born Indian economist and philosopher is next on our list.

Named as Amarthya (Immortal) by the great Rabindranath Tagore himself, Sen began his high school education at St Gregory’s School in -Dhaka in 1941. His family had to relocate to India following the partition post independence. In India, Sen attended the Visva-Bharati University School and later joined the Presidency College Kolkata. While at the college he earned a First Class (Congratulatory First) in B.A. (Honours) in Economics and emerged as the most prominent student of his batch. Sen earned his Ph.D. in Economics from Trinity College, Cambridge.

Amartya Sen received the Nobel Memorable Prize in Economic Sciences in 1988 for his exceptional contribution to the field and for his interests in the problems of the poorest members of the society.

In spite of being a permanent resident of the U.S. for nearly 5 decades, Sen has declined U.S. citizenship and has retained his Indian citizenship, claiming that his Indian identity is significant and very important to him. 

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