Amartya Sen, winner of the Nobel Economics Prize, 1998. Pic Courtesy: Outlook Magazine
‘Tis the Nobel season anyways, and while we are yakking up Obama and his Nobel Peace Prize, here is another winner. Albeit for economics, and from another year. Amartya Sen won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1998 for his work in welfare economics. [...]
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An Argumentative Indian, Speaks!
Amartya Sen, winner of the Nobel Economics Prize, 1998. Pic Courtesy: Outlook Magazine
‘Tis the Nobel season anyways, and while we are yakking up Obama and his Nobel Peace Prize, here is another winner. Albeit for economics, and from another year. Amartya Sen won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1998 for his work in welfare economics. [...]
No Way Out
Women are made for homes or graves.
–Afghan saying
In her new piece for The Nation, Ann Jones has ripped the heart out of the argument that we should continue our mission in Afghanistan to prevent the plight of women. As someone who has worked with women there, Jones comes to this conclusion out of frustration at the Karzai admin [...]
The Afghan Quagmire
Last week President Obama conducted the fifth strategy meeting with his national security team on Afghanistan. Looking how quickly the U.S. is sinking into this hole, I decided to do a little bit of poking around of my own in New York City to get a sense what Afghans living here had to say about what was happening.
As expected, many expats w [...]