Amartya Sen claims that he was abroad when VC received call asking him not to remove shops in Santiniketan.
Nobel laureate economist Amartya Sen has said that he was not in India in바카라 웹사이트June 2019바카라 웹사이트when, according to Visva-Bharati University라이브 바카라 vice-chancellor Bidyut Chakrabarty, the globally acclaimed economics professor made him a phone call, introducing himself as a Bharat Ratna, and urged Chakrabarty not to proceed with the varsity라이브 바카라 hawker eviction plan.
Sen (87), who was born and brought up in the quaint university town of Santiniketan and is an alumnus of the university founded by Asia라이브 바카라 first literature Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore, is at present a바카라 웹사이트Thomas W. Lamont University바카라 웹사이트Professor, and바카라 웹사이트Professor바카라 웹사이트of Economics and Philosophy, at Harvard University in the United States.
On바카라 웹사이트December 16, the V-B authorities issued a statement saying바카라 웹사이트바카라 웹사이트Chakrabarty was returning from New Delhi in바카라 웹사이트June 2019바카라 웹사이트by an Air India flight (AJ0020) that took off from Delhi at 2pm and reached Kolkata al 4.30pm on바카라 웹사이트June 2바카라 웹사이트or바카라 웹사이트June 14. Upon boarding the university car from the airport, Chakrabarty received a call, with the caller informing him that Sen, who was introduced as a Bharat Ratna, wanted to speak to him over the phone.
“The Vice-Chancellor received the call. Professor Sen started criticizing and questioning the vice-chancellor for demolishing the illegal shops that had mushroomed along the road on which Pratichi, Prof Sen's ancestral home, is located. In order to defend his point, he insisted that these shops had been there since the days of Tagore and that they were part of Visva Bharati. He illustrated the supposed convenience of having these shops around by giving the example of how he could easily buy food-stuff like바카라 웹사이트tarkari바카라 웹사이트(vegetables) or get his daughter라이브 바카라 punctured flat tyre fixed,” the Visva-Bharati라이브 바카라 statement read.
The authorities also accused Sen, whose family has been one of the early settlers of Santiniketan, of illegally occupying 13 decimal of university라이브 바카라 land.
The authorities also shared a phone number from which they claimed the call came. 바카라 found out the number belonged to Aurobinda Nandy, an associate of Sen who lives in Santiniketan.
While Nandy said that Sen does use his number to call people when in India, he clarified that he had not been abroad in바카라 웹사이트June 2019바카라 웹사이트and Sen said that he had not been in India in바카라 웹사이트June 2019.
“On바카라 웹사이트June 2, 2019, I was in France, attending a meeting in Paris.바카라 웹사이트 On바카라 웹사이트June 14, 2019, I was in América, at our home in Cambridge, Massachusetts.바카라 웹사이트 After that I was in England, in the English Cambridge. I came (to India) on the바카라 웹사이트3rd of July, and went to Delhi first, and then Calcutta and Santiniketan.바카라 웹사이트I was not in India at all in바카라 웹사이트June 2019,” Sen wrote in a letter to바카라 웹사이트Sudipta Bhattacharya, the president of Visva-Bharati University Faculty Association, on바카라 웹사이트December 29.바카라 웹사이트바카라 웹사이트
Bhattacharya shared this letter with some of his colleagues at Visva-Bharati, one of whom shared its contents with 바카라. The letter came from Sen라이브 바카라 official email id.
When contacted, Bhattacharya refused to comment, saying he was not authorised to speak to the media.바카라 웹사이트바카라 웹사이트
“I am extremely rarely in India in June. I prefer to come only after the monsoon settles in - so it tends to be July, not June,” Sen wrote in that letter.
“I have talked with the present VC of Visva Bharati, Bidyut Chakravarty, only once, to the best of my knowledge.바카라 웹사이트This was a few years ago when he was chairing a meeting for the release of a book by Pranab Bardhan.바카라 웹사이트 His claim that we have talked on the phone and I introduced myself as Bharat Ratna is tantalizingly untrue,” Sen wrote.바카라 웹사이트바카라 웹사이트
The V-B authorities have been facing charges of “saffronisation” since Chakrabarty took charge in 2018. The university is centrally-funded and the Prime Minister is its chancellor.
After this controversy around Sen, chief minister Mamata Banerjee wrote a letter of solidarity to Sen, stating that the government stood by one of Bengal라이브 바카라 brightest sons.
The BJP라이브 바카라 state unit president, Dilip Ghosh, however, took digs at Sen, calling him a “land-grabber”.
While the TMC has taken digs at Ghosh for insulting one of the state라이브 바카라 most-acclaimed sons – with Mamata Banerjee alleging that Sen was targeted by the VB authorities because of his views critical of the central government – the Congress, too, has joined the bandwagon in slamming the BJP for insulting Sen.
In a Facebook post on바카라 웹사이트January 1, Bengal Congress president and the party라이브 바카라 leader in the Lok Sabha, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, blasted the Centre and the VB authorities.
“If Amartya Sen is a ‘thief’, why isn’t Visva Bharati taking possession of the land? Do they have the guts? Why can’t they conduct a ‘land-strike’? The Prime Minister is Visva-Bharati라이브 바카라 chancellor. Why is he silent? Such a huge land scam! No, the likes of Amartya Sen never lower their head. Many may dislike, but not everyone has mortgaged their spine, not everyone bows,” Chowdhury wrote.바카라 웹사이트 바카라 웹사이트바카라 웹사이트