10 Facts About "Amartya Sen"

Amartya Sen was born on November 3, 1933 in Manikganj, now part of Bangladesh.

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Amartya Sen was brought up around the university campus during his childhood.

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His native place is Shantiniketan in Birbhum, Bengal, now a part of West Bengal.

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At the age of 18, Amartyasen was diagnosed with oral cancer.  He recover from  that.

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The Bengal famine of 1943, a man-made catastrophe, greatly affected the formative years of the Amritya Sena

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Amartyasena is named after the famous poet and writer Rabindranath Tagore. Tagore named him after Sen at the request of his mother Amita Sen

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Amartya Sen has been a graduate of Harvard University in the US. of the United Nations

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He work on the United Nations Human Development Index, a measure of a country’s development

In 1998, Amartyasen was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics for his significant contributions to welfare economics.

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Amartyasena is known for promoting gender equality in his writings

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When Amartyasen was awarded a prize fellowship at Trinity College, he chose to study philosophy

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