Amartya Sen - doing well
Suddenly rumors spread like wildfire that Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen has passed away. Heartfelt of condolences began to pour in from every quarters as usual. Sen’s family, however, were prompt to announce that Amartya is alive and is doing well.
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Taking her twitter handle, Amartya’s daughter Nandana thanked the family’s well wishers and confirmed that her father is alive and is doing well. “Friends, thanks for your concern but it’s fake news: Baba is totally fine. We just spent a wonderful week together w/ family in Cambridge—his hug as strong as always last night when we said bye! He is teaching 2 courses a week at Harvard, working on his gender book—busy as ever!” This is exactly what she wrote on her twitter handle.
At present Amartya holds a prestigious position as professor of Thomas W. Lamont University. At the same time he is engaged as professor of economics and philosophy at Harvard University. Before that he held the post of master at Trinity College, University of Cambridge.
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Amartya was awarded the Nobel prize of Economics in 1998. Very next year he was awarded the nation’s highest civilian honour – Bharat Ratna by Atal Behari Vajpayee government.
With this tweet all speculations about his demise have been put in the back burner.
