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It is important to reclaim for humanity the ground that has been taken from it by various arbitrarily narrow formulations of the demands of rationality

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Amartya Sen
Age: 90
Born: 1933
Born: November 3
Economist
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Shantiniketan
Amartya Kumar Sen
Professor Amartya Kumar Sen
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