6 Facts About Amartya Sen

1. In February 2015, Amartya Sen opted out of seeking a second term for the chancellor post of Nalanda University, stating that the Government of India was not keen on him continuing in the post.

2. On 19 July 2012, Amartya Sen was named the first chancellor of the proposed Nalanda University.

3. In 2009, Amartya Sen published a book called The Idea of Justice.

4. In 1981, Amartya Sen published Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation, a book in which he argued that famine occurs not only from a lack of food, but from inequalities built into mechanisms for distributing food.

5. In 2004, Amartya Sen was voted fourteenth in BBC's poll of the Greatest Bengali of all time.

6. In 2017, Amartya Sen was awarded the Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science for most valuable contribution to Political Science.