Idea of individual liberty has taken the biggest knock in India: Amartya Sen: Read Rajesh Mahapatra’s interview of Amartya Sen“The attitude of the censor board just underlines the relevance of the documentary in which Sen highlights the growing intolerance in India. Nobel laureate Amartya Sen and actor Soumitra Chatterjee during the special screening of Suman Ghosh’s film The Argumentative Indian. (IANS)According to the report, the word “Gujarat” came up during a lecture Sen delivered at Cornell University in The Argumentative Indian that was shot in two parts in 2002 and 2017. Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen gives his autograph on the Bengali translation of his own book The Country of First Boys,during its launch at ICCR in Kolkata on Monday. (PTI)On Wednesday, Sen refused to comment on the controversy.

Source: Hindustan Times July 12, 2017 07:38 UTC