Ode To An Academic Heritage

Amartya Sen’s autobiography ‘Home in the World: A Memoir’ had been gathering dust in my book shelf for some time now. I decided to use the time sparingly on my own ease, rejoice and peace to read some of the selected chapters of the almost 400-page work authored by one of the most brilliant thinkers of our era who has the rare distinction of pursuing and fusing the intellectual heritage and philosophic traditions of the east and the academic rigour and scientific innovations of the West. As I shuffled through the pages of the Sen’s memoir, I could imagine the vastness of knowledge, depth of understanding and multiverse of reflections that combine into shaping up and making Dr. Sen's intellectual base and edifice.