Copy: The fact that he was born in Rabindranath Tagore's Shantiniketan should have been indication enough that Amartya Sen was meant for things extraordinary.
While other children were content with their playthings, Amartya toyed with Sanskrit, Mathematics and Physics, before settling for the eccentric charms of Economics.
It was the 1943 Bengal famine that fed Amartya's hunger to find an answer to economic inequality in the country. Cambridge followed Calcutta in his quest for comprehension and soon became his cerebral home.
Here he felt at home among the literati. He parried with Pierangelo, debated with Dobb and mused with Mahbub ul Haq. Cambridge was to be the battleground where ideologies fought but only ideas survived.
In 1998, Amartya Sen was conferred the Nobel Prize for Economics for his contribution in welfare economics. His economic paper would re-write history. It has changed the way countries approach famine and poverty.
The United Kingdom has been the seat of higher learning for centuries. Its 140 colleges have nurtured genius and talent in a variety of fields for generations. And it continues to do so, till today.
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