Among the Indian Nobel prize winners, prof. Amartya Sen is a prominent one. For his work in welfare economics ‘he
received the prestigious Nobel prize in 1998.
He was born 3rd November 1993 at Shantiniketan in
west Bengal. Rabindranath Tagore named him ‘Amartya’ meaning ‘Immortal’. He
studied at Ahantiniketan, now the Viswa Bharathi University, and then at
Precidency College, Culcutta and Delhi school of economics. Later he went for
higher studies at Trinity college , Cambridge. There he finished Ph.D in 1959.
After
that he taught economics at University of Culcutta, Jadavpur University and
also at Oxford and Harvard universities. Then he was the master of Trinity
College, Cambridge from 1997 to 2004. At present Prof. Sen teaches at
Harvard University.
He has done extensive work on famine, human development
theory, welfare economics, underlying mechanisms of poverty and political
liberalism. His bestwritten work is ‘Poverty and Famines : An Essay on Antitlement
and Deprivation’, which was published in 1981. Here he has shown that famine
doesn’t occur due to lack of food, but from inequalities built into the
mechanism of distributing the food.
Dr .
Sen separated from his first wife Nabaneeta Devi, they had two daughters. His
second wife Eva Colorni died of stomach cancer in 1985. They had a son and a
daughter. Now his third wife’s name is Emma Rothschild.
In 1999, government of India awarded him Bharat Ratna .
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