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Amartya Sen as champion of the downtrodden
A scene from "Amartya Sen: A Life Re-examined".
ALTHOUGH RECOGNISED primarily as an economist, Nobel laureate Amartya Sen has also proven his scholarship and wisdom in philosophy and history and has extensively contributed to the work involving rural development programmes in various less developed countries - thus going beyond the dollars and rupees that govern our present-day existence and delineating the imbalances in the development paradigm that tilts it in favour of the rich.
Introducing the viewer to various issues and aspects from the life of this versatile scholar is a recent documentary by Suman Ghosh titled "Amartya Sen: A Life Re-examined'', that will be screened at India International Centre here at 6-30 this Wednesday evening. The screening of the 56- minute film in English will be followed by a discussion with the filmmaker.
Winner of the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1998, Prof. Sen, who is currently Master of Trinity College at Cambridge University in England, has contributed to the debates surrounding poverty and how it is linked to imbalances in the public distribution system in developing countries. This is the social framework the film tries to capture and from that perspective, it presents Prof. Sen as a champion of the downtrodden.
The structural framework of the film is a narrative between Prof. Sen and his student and fellow-economist, Kaushik Basu. Against the backdrop of this conversation, the film is interspersed with a commentary by other Nobel laureates, scholars and politicians who have had a closer understanding of the life and work of Prof. Sen.
Using extensive footage from his native birthplace in India, the film travels to his college in Kolkata continuing to his current abode at the Master's Lodge in Cambridge. It also captures the ground reality of ongoing rural literacy programmes on which Prof. Sen has pinned such great hope and trust for the uplift of the poverty stricken masses. The visual narration is complemented by original music inspired, in part, by the work of the Nobel laureate and poet Rabindranath Tagore.
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