Book Review Of Amartya Sen's 'the Argumentative Indian'
...February 2009
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Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Amartya Sen rewrites ‘The Argumentative Indian’
Report by Pagal Patrakar
Kolkata. Nobel laureate and leading thinker Professor Amartya Sen has rewritten his bestselling book ‘The Argumentative Indian’. Professor Sen has replaced the word ‘argumentative’ with ‘sensitive’ in deference to changing times. Professor Sen released the first copies of 'The Sensitive Indian' here in a modest function.
“We no longer are argumentative. Nobody seems to be interested in a dialogue or argument. People are just sensitive. They come, they see, they feel sensitive and act in a fashion that is driven by pure sentiments. Sentiments have replaced arguments.” Professor Sen explained his decision to re-write the book.
He claimed that India still enjoys intellectual pluralism, but this pluralism is no longer the result of interactions between differing thoughts; it is due to the emergence of ‘one-way sensitivities’. Professor Sen claims that such a scenario is not good, and Indians must get back to their argumentative ways.
“Instead of discussing important and vital issues, we are sweeping them under the carpet claiming it hurts our sentiments. None of the policies of yesteryears are being questioned, but they are all being defended in name of sentiments. Look around and you would understand.” Professor Sen averred.
To find out the truth, Faking News carried out a small survey through interviews of various people and discovered that most of the people agreed with Professor Amartya Sen’s views.
“Root causes of terrorism are not being discussed as it hurts the sentiments of a particular community. You can’t question caste based policies without hurting the sentiments of...
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