"No famine has ever taken place in the history of the world in a functioning democracy," observed Nobel Prize-winning ...

A Master’s student from Kolkata on the Bengali life in NYC, from Amartya Sen and Durga Puja to kathi rolls, and more ...

RTI activist denied information on social identities of teaching staff in West Bengal government medical colleges.

With high public debt, it is difficult for the Centre and State governments to choose between fiscal prudence and high ...

In fact, many a Cambridge student will proudly reminisce that they went to Trinity College, where Amartya Sen (as did Manmohan Singh and Rehman Sobhan) had also been. Dartmouth or Oberlin in the ...

THE displacement caused by megaprojects like the padma bridge highlights how development can deepen inequality. Amartya Sen’s ...

Closer home, Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen's view is equally relevant: ‘Whatever you can say about India, the opposite is also true.’ The fact is, India has never been easy to read. It’s a ...

There is little question that Manmohan Singh’s scholarly achievements were impressive, and that his contributions as an economic reformer were both substantial and enduring ...

Prof Rahman attended St Gregory's High School where he was classmates with the Nobel laureate economist Amartya Sen. He then went on to study economics at Dhaka University, earning his BA Honours in ...

You’re behind the wheel of a car, speeding down a road without a care in the world. Do you really need to understand the intricacies of internal ...

A new audit of Australia’s democracy finds it generally in good shape, but with pressing issues that need addressing.