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...feel somewhat apologetic that my interests are so diverse,” Sen told The Crimson in 2000. “I’m so peripatetic, after a year or two I tend to move to something else...
...most colleagues contend that it’s precisely this uninhibited approach to scholarship that has made Sen one of the most important thinkers of his time...
...Sen was born in the university town of Dhaka, India to an academic family: His father was a chemistry professor and his grandfather had taught Sanskrit. Sen has written that he knew early in his life that he, too, would become an academic. The only open question was what he would teach...
...kind of interest in examination performance and grades was severely discouraged,” he wrote in an autobiographical statement upon receiving the Nobel Prize. The teachers instead emphasized the importance of genuine curiosity as the impetus behind education and, ultimately, creative thought. Under this eccentric tutelage, Sen considered careers in physics, mathematics and Sanskrit before deciding to pursue economics...
This global awareness has since become the heart of his research. As an undergraduate at Presidency College in Calcutta, India, Sen found himself in a vibrant and highly politicized intellectual environment that, he has suggested, informed his later research interests...