Few get under the skin of the saffron parivar as Amartya Sen does. The globally acclaimed economist, Nobel Laureate, former Chancellor of Nalanda with a colossal body of scholarly works is repeatedly attacked on social media because he once happened to voice his voting preference for leaderships that in his eyes are perceptibly humane to minorities.
Targeting liberal intellectuals is quite the norm these days, so the question arises, where is the saffron equivalent of Amartya Sen? Jagdish Bhagwati may be Sen’s scholarly rival yet Bhagwati’s certainly not “saffron” in his social thought. He’s openly spoken about the need to end backward thinking in education, has spent the majority of his working life in western universities, amidst western academia and his Read More
