Nirmala Sitharaman's Swipe At Amartya Sen: "Worrying That Scholars..." | Read

It is worrying that scholars can be now "influenced" and become "imprisoned" by their own likes and dislikes rather than comment on the basis of facts, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has said, as she took a swipe at Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen for his views about the BJP government. During a conversation organised by the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government on Tuesday, Ms Sitharaman was asked by Harvard Professor Lawrence Summers that "number of people in our community", notably economist Amartya Sen has expressed "rather strong reservations" about the BJP government.