One of the world's leading public intellectuals of our time, Nobel laureate Amartya Sen has penned his memoir 'Home in the World'. The book will be published in July by Penguin Random House.
In 'Home in the World', Sen shares details from his life and explores the idea of 'home'. From growing up in Dhaka, Bangladesh to being raised by his grandparents and parents in Santiniketan, to studying economics for the first time in Calcutta, to moving to Trinity College, Cambridge-- Sen has been to many places in his lifetime.
In this book, Sen shares how it was Rabindranath Tagore who gave him his name Amartya. He also reminices the conversations at Calcutta's famous Coffee House and at Cambridge, and Marx's, Keynes' and Arrow's ideas all of which shaped his views.
Sen, 87, won the prestigious Nobel Prize for Economics in 1998. In 2012, he was conferred with the National Humanities Medal by President Obama.
Some of Amartya Sen's notable books are 'The Argumentative Indian', 'The Idea of Justice' among others.
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