The hut that allows the light of the world: Amartya Sen
Amartya Sen's autobiography in English, 'Home in the World', is the story of a self-born, global self-transformer born in undivided Bengal. At the beginning of the book, he says that he does not have a single, exclusive preference for hometown, favourite food. Santiniketan, where he was born, grew up in Dhaka, burma, where he spent his childhood, and Cambridge University, where he feels at home. Amartya Sen's grandfather, who did not like narrow nationalist views at all, named his house 'Jagat Gudir'. This autobiography by Amartya Sen proves that a self can become a hut that allows all the light of the world inside.
Interesting intimate relationships, usually expected in an autobiography, are lacking in this book of personal information. But Amartya chennai brings us closer as human beings with a vision and a sense of humour than parents, friends, professors, when talking about conflicts of opinion. The laughter continues to haunt him as he talks about the oral cancer experience that threatened him during college. It is a book that speaks to the expansion of its personality and ideology in the context of world-historical events, beginning with bengal and India. Born into a family of scholars, writers and artists, Amartya Sen's mother Amita was a dancer in Rabindranath Tagore's dance dramas. Studied at Santiniketan. The father is a professor of chemistry. His maternal grandfather was a sanskrit and Hindu scholar who was a teacher at Santiniketan. Satyajit Ray, a world-renowned film director who later studied Amartya Sen at Santiniketan, is his senior.
The chapters he wrote on his experience of travelling through the fertile rivers of bengal during his childhood in Dhaka are an experience that mixes poetry, sociology and history. The Padma writes about her experience of seeing small dolphins while travelling on rivers like Magna and Thaleswari. We see the creation of an economist when we talk about rivers, river-dependent life, river-based culture, and economics. He mentions that rivers exist as a community capable of destroying and destroying those who depend on them. He shares with us what can be done without a great life during the flood of rivers which are the livelihood of a mass of people. According to Adam Smith, the market economy thrives on rivers that are more conducive to transportation, which affects Amartya Chennai. He focuses on the culture of the Bengalis who practice rivers and perform many rituals and ceremonies. In bengali novels, he shares with us that the river also comes as a character in the stories.
Sen, who studied at Tagore's ambitious campus, Santiniketan, had previously attended St. Gregory's school in Dhaka, where he spoke of not being the best student by any means. "I became a good student in an environment where no one cared whether I was a good student or not," said Amartya Sen, referring to it as a truly wallless school. Amartya Sen says that Tagore's views on the impact of education on the freedom of the individual and social progress still have an impact on her. rabindranath tagore gave him this name. To name a Nobel laureate, the child he or she named also later receives the Nobel Prize.
Amartya Sen, who remembers the days she spent in burma with her mother and father as a child, feels like listening to a legend when she talks about the experiences of Burmese people living in harmony and love with other communities. He points out that it is the Burmese people who have in recent times become the instigators of hatred and violence against the Islamic people. Amartya Sen, who says that the government and the military can continue to divide and coexist communities through continued propaganda and divisive activities, notes that this trend has been slowly taking root around the world since World war II.
The chapters on the bengal famine that defined Amartya Sen's economic outlook are of immense misery. Sen says food shortages are not the cause of the bengal famine that has killed more than three million people. He says it has nothing to do with the generous availability of food in the market and the ability of every family to buy food according to their needs. It is not enough to have food in the market; Amartya Sen says famine will appear there if not everyone can afford it. He attributes the famine to rising food prices, which have risen fivefold due to the war-torn economy of World war II. Food through fair price shops in big cities like Calcutta