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Amartya Sen
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Amartya Kumar Sen CH (Hon) (Bengali: Ômorto Kumar Shen) (born 3 November 1933), is an Indian economist, philosopher, and a winner of the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences (Nobel Prize for Economics) in 1998, "for his contributions to welfare economics" for his work on famine, human development theory, welfare economics, the underlying mechanisms of poverty, and political liberalism.
From 1998 to 2004 he was Master of Trinity College at Cambridge University, becoming the first Asian academic to head an Oxbridge college. Amartya Sen is interested in the debate over globalization. He has given lectures to senior executives of the World Bank and is a former honorary president of Oxfam.
Among his many contributions to development economics, Sen has produced work on gender inequality. He is currently the Lamont University Professor at Harvard University. Amartya Sen's books have been translated into more than thirty languages. He is a trustee of Economists for Peace and Security.
When referring to sanctions against Myanmar: they "are more likely to be effective there than almost anywhere else I can imagine" — provided other countries join in.
No substantial famine has ever occurred in any independent and democratic country with a relatively free press.
--Democracy as a Universal Value, Journal of Democracy 10.3 (1999) 3-17
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So called Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen will deliver the inaugural Hiren Mukerjee Memorial Parliamentary Lecture in the Central Hall of Parliament on August 11. Sen will speak on "Demands of Social Justice". Mukerjee, an exceptionally gifted intellectual and a brilliant orator, was a member of Lok Sabha for five consecutive terms from 1952 to 1977.
Vice-President Hamid Ansari, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee would attend the lecture.
Amartya Sen and Md yunus are the Economists who lead the Globalisation supporter economists in third world countries and rewarded accordingly. Besides his global role as Pro Imperialism economist, Amarty gets enough time to stand rock solid with the Ruling Brahminical Hegemony and its regemented Marxist Gestapo led by Buddhadeb Bhattacharya.
Anand Bazar group fed by over FDI leaves no stone unturned to make Market sovereign. Latest issue of Desh is an excellent expression of the XXXXX agenda of Global ruling Class. Soft Porn short Stories consist the meat of the issue. Dipankar Dasgupta advocates the sovereignty of the market as pronounced as Last Word! Cover is illuminated by a portrait of the Supreme Slave Prime Minister with his famous Parliamentary quotes from guru Govind Singh! The issue is dedicated to economic reforms and sovereignty of Market with a little bit of salt called Civil Society pro activism! Nuke Deal is supported by FDI fed Media in general which projects the Trust Vote reality show as the last horizon for Hindu Super Power shining India emerging. Shantiniketan Don Somnath Chatterjee has been made a National Hero as he spiritually defended well the Brahminical Interests so well. CPIM is hammered for its so called anti imperialist role! But ironically, Brand Buddha remains in the centre stage with his agenda of indiscriminate industrialisation and urbanisation with blind annihilation of indigenous communities and production system. Nandigram and Singur insurrections are thrashed all round. Mamata is branded as a real Vamp!
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Amartya Sen on Tuesday warned that if "the Tatas pulled out from West Bengal, no other industrialists would even consider coming to the state in future" . Mr Sen was addressing an education convention at University Institute Hall organised by All Bengal Primary Teachers' Association. Mr Sen, who is known to the world for his contribution to development economics, underscored that no country in the world can progress without industrialisation . "I have never seen any country that has progressed without industrialisation. Agriculture alone cannot help. Industrialisation is a must and I support the West Bengal government's industrial policy and the Tata Motors car project in Singur." He felt some problems may have cropped up regarding implementation of the Nano project. "These problems can be sorted out through negotiations," he felt. While Mr Sen was strongly batting for the Tata Nano project, the state government was busy clearing the air of apprehension on the status of the Nano project. The state government categorically stated that the Tatas had no plans to pull out from the state and Tata Motors was going ahead with its plans to roll out the Nano by October.
Anandbazar and its sister publication The Telegraph planted a story depicting Possible departure of Tata Motors and production of Nano from Uttarakhand. The group created such a tight position for Mamata Bannerjee projecting her as the most responsible person for unemployment and starvation in West Bengal. The group never highlights the crisis in the basic industries of Bengal, for example Jute, Cotton, Coal, Tea and engineering.
Ruling Hegemony fielded its best weapon, the Amartay economics against People`s insurrection and it hit Mamata so well.
Mamata softens on Singur, may talk to Tata
NDTV reports:
After several weeks of controversy there is a possibility of peace, Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee on Thursday indicated that she is willing to talk to the Tata group if they approached her.
"We don't want to send a message to anybody. If anybody wants to talk to us we can talk. A dialogue is political courtesy. What we accept or not is different. I feel the state government should take an initiative if they want the Tata Motors factory," said Mamata Banerjee, leader, Trinamool Congress.
This comes as a big relief to Tata Motors who said last week that they would stay in Singur only as long as their patience lasted.
In response to Mamata Banerjee's offer, they have said they are not averse to talking to anyone.
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Tata Motors fed up, Bengal government alarmed
Yet another hint that Tata Motors is fed up with the disruptive agitation against the Nano car project unleashed by Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee has sent alarm bells ringing in the Bengal government and the CPI (M).
WITH THE Tata Motors on the brink of losing its patience over the sporadic disturbances in its Nano small car project in Singur, the Bengal government is a flap. No less a person than Ratan Tata has sent word to the Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee government that while Tata Motors is keen to bring out the small car from Singur but given the destructive goings on at the site, the company is losing its patience, media reports said. Only a few days ago the company managing director Ravi Kant had said "as long as our patience lasts we will be at Singur."
Tata Motors annoyance with the volatile ground situation in Singur has sent the state administration on an alarm mode. The chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee and Commerce and Industries minister Nirupam Sen have briefed the Alimuddin Street mandarins in the Communist Party of India – Marxist (CPI - M) state secretariat.
With Mamata announcing her programme of laying a siege on Singur as of August 24, the state administration is mulling whether to impose prohibitory orders. There is speculation that the Trinamool chief could be arrested to prevent disruption.
The Tatas have withdrawn from a project in Bangladesh and there is no reason why it cannot withdraw from Bengal given that it can bring out the Nano from Pune and has sites identified in Uttarkhand for a factory. This is in effect what the minister for industries told the CPI (M)'s state secretariat.
Meanwhile, seven chambers of commerce in the Kolkata, which have been watching the situation closely is debating whether it should make its stand clear and decided that it should in the larger context of industrial revival in the state. They are going over a joint appeal to keep the Tata Motors project going. The contention of industrialists, who have been watching the Singur imbroglio with a lot of apprehension, is that the small-car project has drawn attention from across the globe and that it would lead to new investments in Bengal. The chambers want all those concerned to sort out the matter keeping the welfare of the state in mind.
Soon after Buddhadeb and his colleague informed the CPI (M) leadership, they went into a huddle yesterday. After the meeting party state secretary Biman Bose called on Jyoti Basu.
Wrong political signals are also emerging from among the CPI (M) leadership with veteran leader Benoy Konar pointing out if the Tata's withdraw, Mamata Banerjee would be the worst affected. "We will launch a state wide propaganda that the Tata's have left because of her." He found support from some leaders on this. The industry minister, however, said that he would keep trying for a rapprochement and try to ensure that Tata Motors does not leave. He also pointed that it had taken a lot of effort to persuade the Tatas to invest. If the project succeeds the people of the state will benefit and if the Tatas go the people of the state stand to lose.
The CPI (M) leadership also issued a statement appealing to people from all walks of life to foil Trinamool Congress's disruptive agitation which was coming in the way of completing the Tata Motors factory. This only shores up Ravi Kant's contention that in the final analysis the people of Bengal have to decide whether they want industrialisation.
The CPI (M) leadership has urged the unemployed to participate directly in implementing all efforts at job generation which in effect boils down mobilising jobless youths to tackle Mamata Banerjee's agitation at a political level.
Meanwhile, the CPI (M) has launched a campaign to counter the Save Farmland Committee's agitation. The CITU-led Nirman Karmi Union took out a procession with workers of the Singur project yesterday demanding that they be allowed to work. On August 10, the Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI) will hold a rally near the project site. On August 13 and August 16, the CPI (M)'s youth wing and the CPI (M) labour wing the CITU will organise separate rallies.
The party meeting also discussed an increase in the compensation to land losers who had not collected their cheques yet but some among the leadership pointed that others who had given up land without making an issue of it would feel discriminated and could recourse to the courts.
On the security side, a couple of water cannons have been positioned at the project site and apart from the 1200 police personnel, the administration increased the number of watchtowers to 30 within the boundary of the project site and set up about 70 camps to keep constant vigil.
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SC dismisses PIL claiming Amartya Sen is not a Nobel Laureate
The Bench repeatedly asked the petitioner's counsel, T P Misra, as to how the issue could be a subject matter of a PIL When no satisfactory reply was provided by the counsel, the Bench said, ``the petition was totally misconceived'
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Amartya Sen not a Nobel laureate, says PIL
NEW DELHI, DEC 8: Did Amartya Sen win Nobel Prize in economics for the year 1998? No, says a petition filed in the Supreme Court, adding that he won only the Bank of Sweden (Sveriges Riksbank) prize in economic sciences in memory of Alfred Nobel, which was instituted by the bank in 1968.
The petition, likely to be heard next week, filed by Dr S C Roy from Calcutta seeks a direction from the Court to the government to clarify the confusion over the award to Sen. Roy, in support of his claim, has annexed a letter from the chief legal counseller of the Swedish Bank R Sparve, who, said, ``difference between the Bank of Sweden prize and the others (Nobel prizes)is, in my opinion, evident from its name and the authorities in Sweden responsible for the selection of the laureates consistently repeat it.''
``I fail to see that any reasonable ground for confusion. If some news media omit the difference in every report about the prize in economics, it is not, in my opinion, an omission for which Swedish authoritiesshould be made responsible, Roy said Alfred Nobel in his will made on November 27, 1895, had envisaged award of Nobel prizes in the fields of physics, chemistry, medicine, literature and peace and that economics was never a part of the will. The first Nobel prize was awarded in 1900. The petitioner has arrayed Union of India, Amartya Sen, PTI, UNI, State of West Bengal and Calcutta Municipal Corporation as respondents. Roy said he held a press conference in Calcutta to remove the confusion created by the press in India due to mistake of fact, but, instead of being appreciated for his efforts in this regard, he was accused of tarnishing the image of Sen. However, Roy could not answer a query from PTI as to why the Nobel Foundation has not protested against the economic prize winners being called Nobel laureates since 1968, when the prize was instituted and 43 persons have got it till date. He said he was being threatened with life for bringing out the truth and sought a direction fromthe Court to the government to restrain circulation and publication of any report that claims that Amartya Sen won Nobel Prize in economics. Roy has also annexed his communication with the Nobel Foundation through Internet to establish his claim. Roy had asked -- as the Nobel Foundation awards the five Nobel prizes and the Swedish Bank prize for economics in memory of Alfred Nobel, whether all the recipients could be called Nobel laureates? The Nobel Foundation said the winner of the Swedish Bank award should be called a prize winner and not a Nobel laureate. Wednesday, December 9, 1998 Economics of Amartya Sen/edited by Ajit Kumar Sinha and Raj Kumar Sen. New Delhi, 2000, xix, 268 p., $30. ISBN 81-7629-259- Contents: Preface. Introduction. I. Economics of Amartya Sen: An Overview: 1. Economics of Amartya Sen/R.S. Mishra. 2. Economics and ethics of Amartya Sen/S.S. Banhati. 3. Nobel laureate: Amartya Sen/S.C. Sharma. 4. The economics of Amartya Kumar Sen-a note/J.N. Tewary. 5. Radical Sen/Amalesh Banerjee. 6. A.K. Sen--The Harbinger of a revolution in economic theory and planning objectives/C. "Economics of Amartya Sen is an edited volume arising out of the contributed papers on this topic organised by the Indian Economic Association to honour its former President, Prof. Amartya Sen on the unique occasion of his winning the Nobel Prize in Economics, in 1998. The present volume consists of 25 articles and notes distributed over five sub-themes, viz. (i) Economics of Amartya Sen: An overview, (ii) Economics and Philosophy of Amartya Sen, (iii) Amartya Sen and Welfare Economics, (iv) Amartya Sen and Development, and (v) Poverty, inequality and Amartya Sen. The articles are authored by R.S. Mishra, S.S. Banhati, S.C. Sharma, J.N. Tewary, Amalesh Banerjee, C.B. Padmanabhan, Debansu Roy, Pragati Mohanty, Kalipada Basu, Kumar B. Das, R.P. Sarma, Ratan Lal Basu, Tapati Sanyal, K.M. Naidu, Anindya Bhukta, Biswajit Chatterjee, P. Jegadish Gandhi, Ram Naresh Thakur, Anju Kohli, Sadhna Kothari, Neelima Shrivastava, Asim K. Karmakar, Debesh Bhowmick, S.L. Pedgaonkar, Amarendra, Shyam Sunder Prasad Sharma, Raj Kumar Sen." (jacket) Return to Economics/Developme http://vedamsbooks. GENEVA (ILO News) - Globalization needs social and political support if it is to appear other than as "a terrorizing prospect for precariously placed individuals and communities" delegates to the 87 th International Labour Conference were told today in a special plenary address given by Professor Amartya Sen, the Nobel Laureate in economics in 1998. The distinguished author and economist told the gathering that if globalization is to fulfill its potential, it has to be accompanied by "well-deliberated action in support of social and political as well as economic changes to the conditions that govern our lives and work." While emphasizing the potential of globalization to raise living standards worldwide, Professor Sen warned that in a world teeming with unemployed and underemployed people only "a significant broadening of national and international efforts to promote equity and protect the rights of workers can transform the dreaded anticipation of the globalization economy into an agreeable and constructive reality." He applauded the commitment of ILO to providing "universal coverage of all working people, including unregulated wage workers, the self employed and homeworkers" and endorsed the goal of providing decent work as "a banner under which all should rally." He said that "given the massive levels of unemployment that exist in many countries today, it is right that policy attention be focused on expanding jobs and working opportunities. And yet the conditions of work are important too." He said the notion of an inevitable trade-off between jobs and the quality of work is "often exaggerated and is typically based on very rudimentary reasoning." Furthermore, "even when trade-offs have to be faced, they can be more reasonably addressed by taking a broader and inclusive approach rather than by simply giving full priority to just one group over another." He supported the comprehensive view of society presented in the report, Decent Work prepared by the ILO Director-General Juan Somavia and presented to the 1999 Conference. Professor Sen called particular attention to the report's insistence on the need for "acknowledging certain basic rights, whether or not they are legislated, as part of a decent society; the practical implications that emanate from this acknowledgement go beyond new legislation to other social, political and economic actions." He said that the protection of workers against vulnerability and contingency was conditional on the working of democratic participation and the operation of political incentives. By way of illustration, he argued that "it is a remarkable fact in the history of famines that famines do not occur in democracies, because famines are, in fact, easy to prevent and a government in a multi-party democracy with election and a free media has strong political incentives to undertake famine prevention." Similarly, "political freedom in the form of democratic arrangements help to safeguard economic freedom and the freedom to survive." He said that the recent problems of some of the East and South-East Asian economies "bring out, among other things, the penalty of undemocratic governance." This is so in two striking respects involving the neglect of two crucial freedoms, protective security and transparency guarantees, both of which are related to safeguarding decent work and to promoting decent lives. The ILO Director-General, Mr. Juan Somavia, warmly welcomed Mr. Sen's participation in the conference proceedings as a symbol of the fact that "the ILO needs to become a knowledge based organization" which could draw upon the advice and wisdom of one of "the most original and creative thinkers of our time", whose intellectual distinction has been matched by an abiding concern for people and for human welfare. Amartya Sen is currently Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, and Professor Emeritus of Harvard University. He was Drummond Professor of Political Economy at Oxford and a Professor of Economics of the London School of Economics and Delhi University. 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The single-mindedness of Western civilization strengthened separatism in the non-Western world, which could be seen in the spread of Islamic fundamentalism, Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen told the Commission on Population and Development today, as it continued its thirty-sixth session.
Delivering a keynote address, he said no historical justification existed for categorizing science and mathematics as Western science, and religious beliefs as the foundation of the non-Western world. Arab and Muslim societies, in fact, had historically contributed greatly to both science and math.
Categorizing civilizations, he continued, encouraged societies to adopt singular identities, resulting in ill-education and social hatred. Sectarian schools and teaching crude categorizations, making one group dominant over another, led to aggressive and intolerant identification. Greater focus, he stressed, must be given to school curricula worldwide.
That did not mean issuing global guidelines, but bringing concerns over content more strongly into public debate.
Mr. Sen also discussed the empowering effect education had on people's lives. He noted that literacy was vital in finding employment, understanding legal rights, overcoming deprivation and raising the political voice of underdogs. Also, educating women could sharply reduce fertility and child mortality rates, limit family size, and increase their input into family decision-making.
In the exchange that followed, moderated by the Director of the Population Division, Joseph Chamie, Mr. Sen was asked about a myriad of issues, among them, the merits of informal education. There was no substitute for formal training in reading, writing and arithmetic, he replied. Moreover, schools gave children the opportunity to socialize and interact with people of different backgrounds and were important in developing healthy social skills.
Another question pertained to the importance of developing standards for testing and measuring students' progress in reasoning. Mr. Sen agreed that students' ability to reason was as important as their ability to read, write and
do arithmetic, but said that measuring that ability was difficult and had to be approached in more complex ways.
Also today, the Commission discussed programme implementation and future programme of work of the Secretariat in the field of population. Speakers highlighted ongoing activities to achieve population goals, as well as the need for new measures to combat persistent challenges.
Vast differences in health and welfare between rich and poor countries and between the rich and poor within countries was unacceptable, said the representative of the World Bank.
The Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development (Cairo, 1994) and the Millennium Declaration mapped an effective strategy to link population and reproductive health issues to poverty reduction, education for all, improvements in gender equality, and protection of human rights. The challenge was one of effectively implementing that strategy.
China's representative stressed that population had remained a serious issue that should not be ignored, despite the dropping fertility rate. His country was facing new population issues, such as ageing, internal mobility and HIV/AIDS. He hoped the Population Division would devise new measures for approaching HIV/AIDS,...
While speaking at the annual convention of All Bengal Primary Teachers' Association, Prof Sen said that many children lack nutritional value which affects their concentration level as a result of which they are unable to perform well in school.
Prof. Sen, however, appreciated the state government's efforts at introducing mid-day meal scheme as it has helped in encouraging students to attend school. Children from economically weak families are unable to concentrate due to hunger. Teachers have an added responsibility to teach these students, he added. Besides this teachers have to also handle students who are first generation learners. These students depend entirely on what is taught in school as there is nobody to guide them in their homes, said Prof Sen
As fresh violence claimed two lives in Nandigram over the past two days, West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee has convened an all-party peace meeting at the East Midnapore district headquarters in Tamluk on August nine, the Chief Minister's office said.
Inflation has crossed 12 per cent for the first time in over thirteen years as prices of food items continued to rise.
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Law and Justice slams the judiciary for ignoring the rights of common citizens and suggests the Govt consider higher court fees for corporate disputes.
The Bombay Stock Exchange benchmark Sensex closed higher by marginal 43 points even as investors adopted a cautious approach ahead of the weekly inflation data.
Tata Consultancy Services chief operating officer N Chandrasekaran speaks to Indulal PM about TCS.
OPEC crude price dips below $115
The price for crude oil produced by the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries has dropped below $115, to its lowest price since early May.
The fire broke out in the E-Block, or the top floor of the Secretariat building at around 6.45am.
Important works of Dr Sen
Sen's papers in the late 1960s and early 1970s helped develop the theory of social choice, which first came to prominence in the work by the American economist Kenneth Arrow, who, while working at the RAND Corporation, famously proved that all voting rules, be they majority voting or two thirds-majority or status quo, must inevitably conflict with some basic democratic norm. Sen's contribution to the literature was to show under what conditions Arrow's Impossibility Theorem would indeed come to pass as well as to extend and enrich the theory of social choice, informed by his interests in history of economic thought and philosophy.
Amartya Sen has been criticized for his writings outside of economics, especially for his views on the history of Islam and Jihad, by Fouad Ajami in The Washington Post.[2]
[edit] Awards
He received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics for his work in welfare economics in 1998.
He received the Bharat Ratna, the highest civilian award in India 1999.
In 1999 he received honorary citizenship of Bangladesh from Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in recognition of his achievements in winning the Nobel Prize, and given that his family origins were in what has become the modern state of Bangladesh
He received the 2000 Leontief Prize for his outstanding contribution to economic theory from the Global Development and Environment Institute.
In 2002 he received the International Humanist Award from the International Humanist and Ethical Union.
Eisenhower Medal, for Leadership and Service USA, 2000;
Companion of Honour, UK, 2000.
In 2003, he was conferred the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Indian Chamber of Commerce.
Life Time Achievement award by Bangkok-based United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP)
Rejecting all speculation, West Bengal Indutry Minister Nirupam Sen Tuesday said the state government has not received any intimation from Tata Motors on backing out from its project in Singur.
The Left parties on Thursday accused the UPA of shying away from convening the Monsoon Session of Parliament, saying it feared it would not be able to sustain the majority achieved through "foul means" due to which the Indo-US nuclear deal would be in jeopardy.
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Kolkata, August 5: West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Tuesday said the Left Front Government will not back out from Tata Motors' small-car project at Singur despite the blockades of the site and assault on workers by people still opposing the 2006 farmland acquisition. He said the Tatas, too, have no intention of withdrawing from the project.
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Host and friend to Kolkata's comrades, Shishir Bajoria says Left ideology can solve India's problems
Kolkata, August 2: Last month when the Lok Sabha debated and voted the trust motion, there was an unusual Left fellow-traveller watching the proceedings from the Speaker's gallery.
An industrialist from West Bengal, a former chairman of the Indian Chamber of Commerce and, yes, a firm believer in the "Left ideology"—Shishir Bajoria.
Priya blames CM for Singur impasse
He said during the hunger strike called by Trinamul Congress chief Miss Mamata Banerjee, the chief minister had promised the Prime Minister to discuss and resolve the Singur issue once she ends her fast. But, the chief minister failed to keep his promise. Leader of the Opposition Mr Partha Chatterjee said that the chief minister had assured Miss Mamata Banerjee on 28 December, 2006 that he would hold discussion with her regarding Singur but till date he has not broached the topic with her.
"He has only been misleading people and yesterday his message was loud and clear that the state government will not return the 400 acres of land it had acquired to the farmers. We know how to take the land back. We will go on with our movement,'' Mr Chatterjee said.
Mr Das Munshi said that Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee has been following the NDA model of SEZ. "Our model of SEZ has provision for compensation, rehabilitation, employment. Our policy is to set up SEZ in non-fertile and non-agricultural land," he said.
City based industry associations and chambers of commerce today expressed deep concern over the ongoing disruptions. "The frequent and intensified disturbances are not only delaying the projects but has been tarnishing the image of the state," a joint statement issued by seven city based chambers of commerce said here today. n SNS
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A Division Bench of Mr SS Nijjar, Chief Justice, and Mr Justice Pinaki Ghosh of Calcutta High Court held this following an undertaking the three gave that they would appear whenever they were directed to by the court. The three allegedly made derogatory remarks about the judiciary at a rally on Rani Rashmani Avenue on 17 November last year after a Division Bench of the court had termed the police firing in Nandigram as "unconstitutional".
The affidavit-in-
The contemners are present before the court and as they are busy political leaders they should be exempted from personal appearance, Mr Bikas Ranjan Bhattacharya appearing for the three submitted. They will be present in court whenever it is desired, it was further submitted.
Opposing the exemption plea, Mr Jayanta Mitra, Mr Bimal Chatterjee and Mr Kashi Kanta Moitra appearing for the Bar Library Club, Bar Association and Incorporated Law Society submitted that the three were involved in a clear contempt of court. n SNS
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What a difference from as recently as the 1960s when only sport, the arts and preaching were open to ambitious Blacks. Even in the 1970s, as I long ago documented in Encounter magazine (few believed me), middle class professional Blacks in sizeable numbers were beginning to roar ahead, closing the gap with their White peers. Thank you Martin Luther King.
But like the US's infrastructure, neglect has meant that the cracks and strains beneath are once again coming to the surface, if not, as in the past, in civil rights agitation or riots, but in the shearing of families, in educational failure and in its appalling state of health and morbidity. The "benign neglect"of Patrick Moynihan, social affairs advisor to former President Richard Nixon, has moved to malign neglect. Not that recent Presidents ignored the issue, but what they initiated paled before the ambitions of the US's one and only big presidential plan, Lyndon Johnson's "War on Poverty", a farsighted plan of action, which was sabotaged by the Vietnam war. Another such war on poverty is now needed.
The basic statistics have been thrown into relief by a new report, 'The Measure of America', published by the American Human Development Report, modelled on the UN annual report of the same name. The UN report was the brainchild of the late Pakistani economist Mahbub ul Haq and based on the work of a Nobel laureate in economics, Professor Amartya Sen.
Haq and Professor Sen were convinced that the contemporary obsession with increased gross national product blinded both observers and participants to the tremendous advances that could be made in social well-being, even in quite poor countries, with only a modest rise in incomes. Haq produced sophisticated tables in which countries were not ranked by income per head but by yardsticks more telling ~ longevity, knowledge and a decent standard of living. He called this the "human development index". Sweden and Norway came out top, with Denmark and Canada not far behind. The US was twelfth. Among the Third World countries, some of those low in GNP outranked much more "developed" countries.
Now the US is being measured, not just in the round, as in the UN report, but in great detail. Northeastern states are way ahead, the South way behind. Broken down by race and ethnicity, Asians are at the top of the index. They live an average eight years longer than whites and more than 13 years longer than African-Americans. African Americans have a lifespan shorter than the average American did 40 years ago, and worse than that of American Indians, the second most disadvantaged group.
Huge disparities in human development can be found in groups that live only a few miles from each other. In health, those living in New York's 16th Congressional District (the South Bronx) are at a level that those living in New York's 16th Congressional District (Manhattan's East Side) were at 50 years ago.
Latino results are rather contradictory. They have the lowest ranking of all in education. But they score well on health, coming third behind Asians and whites. But in a disturbing pattern, known as the Latino paradox, the longer Latino immigrants live in the US the less healthy they become.
Another paradox is that in the better off groups, men earn more than women, but in the poorer groups women earn more than men. And one more: Asian females have the highest health index. But note, African-American men live lives 20 years shorter than Asian women.
Because the poorer groups drag the average down so significantly, American health care, although spending more per head than any other nation, ends up producing an average life expectancy lower than Western Europe, Singapore, South Korea and Costa Rica. The US infant mortality rate is on a par with Croatia, Estonia, Cuba and Poland.
The US has 5 per cent of the people on the planet, but 24 per cent of the prisoners, mostly Blacks and American Indians. Almost all three- and four-year-old children were enrolled in pre-school education in France and Italy; in the US it is 53 per cent.
The report continues like this. I have run out of space. Has the US run out of compassion and its sense of equal opportunity? Will the next election make a difference, even if a Black man is elected?
No awareness of land grab'
The absence of any archival work on West Bengal's land acquisition gave me the opportunity to look for the data in the Assembly. Since Independence, besides the colonial Land Acquisition Act of 1894, there existed another state Act entitled the West Bengal Land (Requisition and Acquisition) Act, 1948, which is no more applicable in West Bengal. In fact, when this particular piece of legislation was first enacted in the state Assembly, it was stipulated that it had to be renewed in the Assembly by a majority decision every five years since this was a coercive law. The long period (1948-1993) during which the West Bengal government kept this powerful Act alive was evidence of its frequent application.
In terms of politics during this long period both Congress and Left-ruled governments, which were in power, renewed the Act of 1948. Another important fact is that voting on the amendment of the Act had taken place only twice: once when the Congress was in power and once when the Left parties were in the government. On both the occasions, the parties that were in power won by a majority vote. No Leftist MLA ever raised the issue of the dampening effects of land acquisition on land reforms and no MLA raised the issue of reforming the colonial law by introducing the clause of rehabilitation. The reasons are: since the priority of every political party is to share and/or stay in power, reforming a law for humane cause is always secondary and secondly, our elected representatives care little to educate themselves.
You are right that despite the frightening incidents in Singur and Nandigram, there is still very little awareness, particularly among the intellectuals (politicians of all hues and free thinkers are also included) regarding the continuation of the colonial Land Acquisition Act, 1894, in this largest democratic country of the world. Even Amartya Sen seemed to have no interest in reforming this highly coercive and entitlement-
eventeen years on, since the first industry in Kalaikunda opened the floodgates for more state land acquisition and more industry how have the local populations benefited?
Assurance for employment had fallen flat in the Kalaikunda area of West Medinipur, since in Tata Metaliks (TML) there was virtually no permanent employment from the locality. We had a number of MSc students in the area who lost land but did not get any job. Four years later, about 525 acres of farmland was acquired in the same area for another pig-iron company of the Birlas and the land remained unused for five years; it was not returned to the farmers. Only recently, the government has started leasing out portions of this huge chunk to other companies and earned some rent, which for the capitalist-friendly Left Front government was a better option than returning it to farmers. Truly, many of those farmers would not have been able to pay back the compensation money. After this debacle, people lost faith in the assurances given by political leaders. I don't think anything radically different will happen at Singur. The only benefit the local people will get from these projects is temporary employment as daily wage labour in construction work.
This is one of the most crucial aspects of the land acquisition process because in case of acquisition for a private company, the company sends proposals (with maps) to the concerned ministry and the latter has the discretion to advise the company to prepare an alternative proposal (although there is no provision in the law that the government should take a referendum regarding the acquisition)
In policy and practice, why is market-based compensation for acquired private property inadequate for affected rural populations? It's not an issue of denying the market in providing proper compensation. The issue is to whom and how you are compensating, the amount and method of calculations; which of course have to be more innovative. One major drawback of monetary compensation is that it forces the poor to go for conspicuous consumption.
(The interviewer is on the staff of The Statesman, Kolkata.)
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