“Not a good idea, SIR jee: Amartya Sen’s selective outrage exposed”, First Post, August 24, 2025:
“The year was 2013. Narendra Modi, then the Chief Minister of Gujarat, had emerged as the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) prime ministerial candidate. Within the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), murmurs of discomfort were growing louder in certain quarters.
In Bihar, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, a long-time ally of the BJP, viewed Modi’s rise as a direct threat to his own prime ministerial ambitions.
It was during this turbulent time that N K Singh, an influential bureaucrat-turned-politician, hosted a high-profile dinner in Cambridge. Among the distinguished guests was Nobel laureate Amartya Sen. According to Sankarshan Thakur’s book Single Man: The Life and Times of Nitish Kumar of Bihar, Singh posed a pointed question to Sen……”
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