When Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen says something, everyone listens. So when he pens what is touted as his most ambitious book till date, everyone sits up and takes notice. In the book, The Idea of Justice (Penguin Allen Lane), Sen says that putting in place the right institutions and entitlements is a step towards a more just society. The key thing is whether our institutions are able to deliver justice in their sphere. He also underlines the importance of conversations as a tool to resolve conflicts and arrive at a more just outcome.
(This story appears in the 28 August, 2009 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)
Sen is a Man Whose Ideas Needs Instant Execution At Every Level Of Governance.
on Aug 20, 2009Yes. There is no perfect justice. Creation is itself imperfect and unequal and Metaphysics says that the Creation is a movement towards perfection out of many change and pass.Trouble less society is an UTOPIA which never existed or going to exist. The position of the common Man has improved a lot in these 62 years. The problem now is all want easy money without hard work. That is the problem.
on Aug 19, 2009Writing "The Argumentative Indian", "Identity and Violence" and now "The Idea of Justice" to quote the Indian PM Manmohan Singh,in retrospect, are Amartya Sen's "forage" into unspecialist areas of scholarship. To my mind he should have called it a day after publishing his "Development as Freedom" and "Rationality
on Aug 19, 2009