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| Abhijit
Sen carved out a Unique Space of his Own |
| Sep
3rd 2022. Poornima Varma |
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Abhijit
Sen, eminent economist, passed away on August 29 at
the age of 71. He retired as Professor at the Centre
for Economic Studies and Planning (CESP), Jawaharlal
Nehru University, in 2015.
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| For
Abhijit Sen, Facts and Data were Religion and Ideology
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| Sep
1st 2022. Himanshu |
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My
last meeting with Professor Abhijit Sen was just a week
ago, before his untimely death due to a heart attack
on August 29.
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| Prof.
Abhijit Sen, one of India’s Foremost Experts on Agriculture
and Rural Economy, is no more |
| Sep
1st 2022. Chetananand Singh |
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One
of the country's foremost experts on agriculture and
rural economy, Prof. Abhijit Sen died on Monday night.
The economist and former Planning Commission member
suffered a heart attack. He was 72.
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| Abhijit
Sen (1950-2022) |
| Sep
1st 2022. Ravi Srivastava |
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A
man of great wisdom, and generosity, scrupulously adhering
to principles and willing to fight for them, but without
any malice towards anyone, Ashok Mitra was a pillar
of support for the Left.
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| Abhijit
Sen was an Erudite Scholar with a Heart of Gold |
| Sep
1st 2022. Dipa Sinha |
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With
the passing of professor Abhijit Sen, the country has
lost one of its most sensitive, progressive and grounded
economists. Professor Sen's contributions to academia
as well as policymaking were significant, with his best-known
work in the areas of agriculture, food policy and poverty.
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| Economist
Abhijit Sen believed in Power of Policy to Achieve Growth,
and Alleviate Poverty |
| Aug
31st 2022. Himanshu |
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Professor
Abhijit Sen, economist and former faculty at the Centre
for Economic Studies and Planning (CESP) in Jawaharlal
Nehru University passed away on August 29 due to a sudden
heart attack.
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| Abhijit
Sen: A champion of the excluded and exploited |
| Aug
31st 2022. Mihir Shah |
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Abhijit
Sen, who died on Monday at the age of 72, was one of
India's most distinguished development economists, teachers
and policymakers. He joined the Jawaharlal Nehru University
in 1985, where he remained a much-revered teacher, right
until his retirement in 2015.
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| Abhijit
Sen – A Great Economist with Rural, Agriculture Focus |
| Aug
31st 2022. S Mahendra Dev |
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Abhijit
Sen, a renowned agriculture economist and former member
of the Planning Commission, passed away on August 29.
It is a great loss to the profession of economics in
general, and to economists working on agriculture and
the rural economy in particular, and to policy makers.
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| Abhijit
Sen, noted farm Economist who Advocated Universal PDS,
Passes Away |
| Aug
31st 2022. Banikinkar Pattanayak |
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Abhijit
Sen, the acclaimed agriculture economist who infused
new vitality to the debate on the universalisation of
the public distribution system (PDS) of key grains and
endorsed an ambitious formula for fixing the support
prices of crops, died Monday night. He was 72.
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| Farewell
Prof. Abhijit Sen |
| Aug
31st 2022. An Obituary by Jawaharlal Nehru University
Teachers' Association (JNUTA) |
|
Prof
Abhijit Sen, who taught at the Centre for Economic Studies
and Planning (CESP) for three decades between 1985-2015,
passed away on August 29. He was 72.
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| AIKS
Dips Banner in Memory of Prof. Abhijit Sen, Economist
& Friend of the Peasantry |
| Aug
31st 2022. All India Kisan Sabha |
|
Prof.
Abhijit Sen, renowned economist, expert on agriculture,
rural economy and planning passed away after a brief
illness. He has been closely associated with the All
India Kisan Sabha and has represented the interests
of the peasantry in different capacities in the Government.
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| Abhijit
Sen, one of India’s leading Agriculture Economists and
Distinguished Academics, Passes Away |
| Aug
30th 2022. Harish Damodaran |
|
Abhijit
Sen, renowned agriculture economist and former member
of the Planning Commission during the previous United
Progressive Alliance government, passed away Monday.
He was 72.
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| Remembering
Abhijit Sen, who made Seminal Contributions to understanding
Indian Economic Issues |
| Aug
30th 2022. Vikas Rawal |
|
Prof.
Abhijit Sen, the distinguished economist who passed
away on the night of August 29 at 72, was professor
of economics at the Centre for Economic Studies and
Planning (CESP), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU),
for about three decades.
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| Abhijit
Sen, Leading Economist of Indian Agriculture, Passes Away |
| Aug
30th 2022. An obituary from The Wire Staff |
|
Professor
Abhijit Sen, a leading expert on the rural economy and
a former member of the Planning Commission, died here
on Monday night after a brief illness. He was 72 years
old.
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| Ashok
Mitra |
| May
22nd 2018. Jayati Ghosh |
|
Ashok
Mitra's astounding ability to remain so involved, committed
and intellectually engaged right to the end has left
an inspiring memory of him. His fearless criticisms
and unvarnished truth has attracted so many young people
to him. His works on economics are as impressive as
his journalistic commentary.
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Ashok
Mitra, a Man Who Was Equally Committed Politically and
Personally |
| May
5th 2018. Jayati Ghosh |
|
"Much
has been and will be written about this extraordinary
man…All these qualities, rare as they are, are even
rarer in combination. But in this piece, I will present
a more personal picture, from someone who saw him as
a father figure and was privileged to know him well."
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| Ashok
Mitra |
| May
3rd 2018. Prabhat Patnaik |
|
A
man of great wisdom, and generosity, scrupulously adhering
to principles and willing to fight for them, but without
any malice towards anyone, Ashok Mitra was a pillar
of support for the Left.
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| Ashok
Mitra |
| May
3rd 2018. Mohan Rao |
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"I
do not believe any Obituary to Ashok Mitra will also
recall his quest for gender justice…It was on the basis
of his questions in Parliament and the response obtained
that in 1998, the Supreme Court banned quinacrine sterilization."
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| A
Singular Person |
| May
3rd 2018. Jayati Ghosh |
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"First
Person Singular", a new collection of Ashok Mitra's
essays, is not just a book; it is a conversation with
an accomplished raconteur, one who is always able to
situate his voice in the wider social, economic and
political context.
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| Wisdom,
for the People |
| May
3rd 2018. Prabhat Patnaik |
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Ashok
Mitra will be remembered above all as a strong champion
of the rights of states. He played a major role in exposing
the high degree of centralisation of powers and resources
that existed in the country and went almost unnoticed.
In his death, the country has lost a person of great
wisdom, for whom the interests of its working people
always came first.
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| Ashok
Mitra, the Marxist Economist who was a Fierce Critic of
the Government |
| May
3rd 2018. Paranjoy Guha Thakurta |
|
On
the morning of May Day, former finance minister of West
Bengal, member of parliament, prolific writer, bureaucrat,
economist and Marxist thinker Ashok Mitra passed away
in a Kolkata nursing home. He was born in 1928 and had
turned 90 on April 10 this year. He was not just an
academic, an administrator, a politician and an activist,
but also a writer of amazing eloquence and insight in
both Bengali and English.
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| Ashok
Mitra (1928-2018) |
| May
3rd 2018. Rudrangshu Mukherjee |
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"He
did not go gently into the good night. He raged against
the fading of the light. But those, like me, who were
fortunate to receive his affection knew that beneath
the rage was a tender heart. No one showered affection
the way Ashok Mitra did. Adieu comrade Mitra on May
Day."
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| Ashok
Mitra: Railing against the times, but very much a part
of them |
| May
3rd 2018. Jayati Ghosh |
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Revisiting
a review written for 'Frontline' magazine of the English
version of Ashok Mitra's Bengali memoirs, 'Apila Chapila',
published in 2007. "The impression on reading this
book is not one of a difficult man, rather of an incurable
romantic. It is a book full of people, full of little
stories about them and full of the emotion that only
caring deeply about people can bring. So this idiosyncratic
memoir is in some ways a love poem to many of the people
he has ever known."
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| Former
Bengal Finance Minister was a Polymath Member of Significant
Groups |
| May
3rd 2018. Jayati Ghosh |
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Ashok
Mitra was one of the most remarkable personalities of
Independent India. A polymath who spanned technical
economics, literature, policy and politics, he brought
to all of these his distinctive flair, razor-sharp intelligence,
and enormous energy and passion. We can be proud of
living in a society that could produce such a person.
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| Ashok
Mitra, the Former Bengal Finance Minister Who Wished He
Were Forgotten |
| May
3rd 2018. Subhanil Chowdhury |
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"He
disliked being praised. In the last few lines of his
memoirs Aapila Chaapila, he wished that he may be forgotten
by everybody, he did not want his readers to remember
him. Therefore, he would have strongly disagreed with
this obituary of his. But those who knew him, loved
him would agree that it is impossible to forget him."
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| Sreyashi
Dastidar writes about Ashok Mitra |
| May
3rd 2018. Sreyashi Dastidar |
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"I
have not come across anyone — and I don't think I ever
will — who can dictate a thousand-plus-word piece, often
with figures comparing development indices, without
faltering even once, or consulting a piece of paper.
For me, this was nothing short of a superpower — and
the man was pushing eighty."
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