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Harvard professor Amartya Sen may have won a Nobel Prize for his work in welfare economics, but his son addresses the issue of social injustice in a different manner—he raps about it. Kabir Sen, a Wesleyan University graduate and son of Lamont University Professor Sen, will release his third album, “Peaceful Solutions,” on April 25. According to the rapper’s manager, Howard Turkenkopf, Kabir’s first two albums were well received. “His stuff has a lot more in terms of intelligence and a sort...
...symposium hosted by the Harvard Alumni Association in New Delhi—the first such gathering to take place in India, according to the University.The symposium, which was kicked off by India’s prime minister, Manmohan Singh, featured an assortment of Harvard professors including Lamont University Professor Amartya K. Sen.One of the speakers at the symposium, Tarun Khanna, Lemann professor at Harvard Business School, wrote in an e-mail that the event successfully reached out to alumni “by giving a flavor of diversity of research and teaching activity that is underway” across...
...first such gathering to take place in India, according to Longbrake. Summers will be part of a sizable delegation of University administrators, including deans of Harvard’s various faculties. An assortment of Harvard professors will participate in discussions at the symposium, including Lamont University Professor Amartya K. Sen and Rothenberg Professor of English and American Literature Homi K. Bhabha. Some of the Harvard alumni visiting India for the events will have the opportunity to see some of the rest of the country during guided tours offered before and after the symposium, offered through the HAA Alumni Education Office...
...success as an example of what Indian financial and managerial acumen can achieve, given the right global opportunities. Perhaps. But nobody asks this: Would Mittal have been as successful if he had remained in India? Why do so many of our success stories - from conductor Zubin Mehta to economist Amartya Sen to author Salman Rushdie - live abroad? Is there something about the Indian environment that discourages achievement? Whenever globally successful businessmen have come back home, they have failed to replicate their international record. Even the Mittals are far more successful abroad than they are in India. Some of this...
...widened dramatically. There are now 1.07 boys born for each girl in China, compared to a ratio of 1.05 in the West. Given the size of the world’s population, a 0.02 difference can translate into millions of people. According to authors like Lamont University Professor Amartya Sen, as many as 100 million women have gone “missing” in Asia. Most authors have attributed the missing women to high levels of female mortality. But in her paper, “Hepatitis B and the Case of the Missing Women,” Oster said...