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Neo-liberalism looks Misty through Amartya Sen’s ‘Snakes and Ladders’

Wed, 2012-02-01 09:54 | Sudipta Bhattacharyya

Prof. Amartya Sen in a recent lecture ‘Snakes and Ladders’ compared the performances of Europe, China and India. He pointed out that the economic policy of ‘austerity’ pushed the developed world ‘into the mouth of a fairly hefty snake’. On the other hand though India’s experiment about democracy is relatively successful, abysmal inequality prevails here; so much so that it’s social development indicators are not only below China, but also below Bangladesh. To save developed and developing world including India from ‘hefty snakes’, state should ensure education and health security and it should act as the ‘social mediator’. Having broad consensus with Sen, Sudipta Bhattacharyya puts forward some important disagreements.

Critical Notes on Amartya Sen’s ‘Idea of Justice’

Thu, 2009-12-10 10:10 | Maidul Islam

“Sen, a Nobel Prize winner in Economics and a Lamont Professor of Economics and Moral Philosophy at Harvard University took an intelligent and pragmatic approach by pondering over the idea of ‘enhancement of justice’ by ‘removal of injustice’ instead of imagining an a priori perfect just society, or ‘identifying perfectly just social arrangements’ or ‘just institutions’ in his book. However, the book has several deficiencies, and in this article, we would try to point out those ontological, methodological and epistemological limits/problems of Sen’s idea of justice.”

Imperialism, The Indian Left and the Struggle for Social Justice

Fri, 2008-08-22 18:23 | Prasenjit Bose and Chirashree Das Gupta

Prasenjit Bose, Convenor, Research Cell, CPI(M) and Chirashree Das Gupta, member, Pragoti Editorial Team reply to Professor Amartya Sen's remarks about the left's withdrawal of support to the UPA government over the issue of the operationalisation of the Indo-US Nuclear Deal.