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Amartya Sen

Amartya Sen was born in west Bengal in 1993. He won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1998, was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge from 1998-2004, and is currently Lamont University Professor at Harvard. His most recent books are The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity , and Identity and Violence: the illusion of destiny . His books have been translated into thirty languages.

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Argumentative Indians: Amartya Sen and Salman Rushdie in conversation

openDemocracy presents the second of a series of audio features from the PEN World Voices literary festival. Two giants of south Asian culture, the Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen and novelist Salman Rushdie discuss democracy, migration and identity.

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