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A Memoir

by Amartya Sen

ALLEN LANE

₹899; 480 pages

This hard to pigeonhole Amartya Sen. He nearly opted to study physics due to his love for maths. He has taught game theory and done mathematically-driven abstract work on social choice. He has edited and translated a book on Hindu philosophy written by his late grandfather and mused at length on many philosophical questions himself and worked on famines, economic deprivation, class, gender inequalities,