The Country of First Boys And Other Essays

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Publication Date: October 1,2015

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Over and over Amartya Sen, Nobel laureate and polymath, offers stimulated our thoughts and world-view through his suggestions. The book is presented by Gopalkrishna Gandhi, previous Indian diplomat and governor of West Bengal, who’s also the grandson of Mahatma Gandhi.

Sen’s deeply informed and humane composing connects history, tradition, literature, economics, and politics. Many of the essays are worried particularly with India–its traditional traditions and the problems it faces today; many–such mainly because his address to the overall Assembly of the US in 2004–engage with global problems.

Many of these essays had been first released in the Indian literary publication THE TINY Magazine. Each is written with a enthusiasm and conviction, a carefully persuasive design, and a characteristically undogmatic engagement with differing factors of look at. Others are published right here for the very first time. In his new assortment of cultural essays Sen examines sociable justice and welfare, by addressing a few of the fundamental problems of our period like deprivation, disparity, food cravings, illiteracy, alienation, globalization, mass media, independence of speech, injustice, inequality, exclusion, and exploitation.


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