Becoming Amartya Sen

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In 1901, at the age of forty, the writer Rabindranath Tagore founded a small school at Santiniketan, in a rural part of Bengal about a hundred miles north of Calcutta. Twenty years later he added a university alongside it—Visva-Bharati, whose name joined together the Sanskrit words for world and wisdom and whose motto was “Where […]

Original source: https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2022/12/08/becoming-amartya-sen-home-in-the-world/

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