Summary of Amartya Sen's Home in the World

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#1 I have experienced similar defeats in my attempts to respond to other searches for unique identification. I have never been able to answer the question what is your favorite food. because I love them all, but I would not like to live on any one of them as my only food.

#2 My family was living in the city of Dhaka when I was born in 1933. I was not born there, but they were very happy there. The house was built by my paternal grandfather, Sharada Prasad Sen, who was a judge in the Dhaka courts.

#3 I knew I belonged to Dhaka, but like many urban Bengalis, I felt my home was the village from which the family had moved to the city. My home village, the ancestral home of my father’s family, is a tiny one called Matto, in a district called Manikganj.

#4 The name of my house in old Dhaka, Jagat Kutir, meant the cottage of the world. It reflected my grandfather’s skepticism of nationalism, but I loved listening to the stories of travel and adventure that visitors told me.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: May 17, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822521391

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Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

I have experienced similar defeats in my attempts to respond to other searches for unique identification. I have never been able to answer the question what is your favorite food. because I love them all, but I would not like to live on any one of them as my only food.

#2

My family was living in the city of Dhaka when I was born in 1933. I was not born there, but they were very happy there. The house was built by my paternal grandfather, Sharada Prasad Sen, who was a judge in the Dhaka courts.

#3

I knew I belonged to Dhaka, but like many urban Bengalis, I felt my home was the village from which the family had moved to the city. My home village, the ancestral home of my father’s family, is a tiny one called Matto, in a district called Manikganj.

#4

The name of my house in old Dhaka, Jagat Kutir, meant the cottage of the world. It reflected my grandfather’s skepticism of nationalism, but I loved listening to the stories of travel and adventure that visitors told me.

#5

I had two homes growing up: Santiniketan, where I was born, and Dhaka, where my parents built a house in 1941. I spent most of my time in Santiniketan, however, because my parents built a house there first.

#6

I was very close to my maternal grandmother, Kiranbala, who was a talented painter on pottery and also highly skilled as a midwife. I learned a lot from her about the importance of antiseptics in childbirth.

#7

I grew up in Burma, and was excited to see new places and learn new things. I loved the land and its inhabitants, and the earth seemed beautiful to me.

#8

My father knew no medicine, but he did what he could to help the seekers of medical attention receive care from the public hospitals in Mandalay. The Burmese were extremely warm and very likeable.

#9

I loved returning to Mandalay, and the country of my first memories. I learned some Burmese and could chat in a halting way. The Burmese nanny who looked after me was very beautiful, and she knew some Bengali words.

#10

I had the opportunity to know Aung San Suu Kyi, a remarkable woman who led the country with much courage and vision to resist the rule of the military in 1962. I was very fortunate in knowing such a remarkable and brave person.

#11

The Burmese, whose kindness impressed me as a young boy, seem to have turned brutally hostile to the Rohingyas, who have had to endure barbarities, torture, and murder in an organized pogrom.

#12

The Rohingya crisis is a clear example of how selective hatred can emerge and spread. It is important to consider the timing and practicality of your actions when facing such situations.

#13

I went to St Gregory’s School in Dhaka, and while I was there, my father sent me to live with my grandparents in Burma to study at the Santiniketan school there. My father believed that the Japanese would not attack Calcutta or Dhaka, so he wanted me to go to Santiniketan.

#14

I loved my new school in Santiniketan, but I missed Dhaka, and I was quickly realizing that I did not enjoy a new life. I intensely missed the old world.

#15

The Padda is the smaller of the two branches of the Ganga, and it flows past the city of Calcutta. The Farakka Barrage, which was built in 1970 to divert more water into the Bhagirathi, generated resentment in east Bengal.

#16

The steamer rides on the Padda always enchanted me. I was excited to see the constantly changing Bengali landscape, and I enjoyed being in a world of continuous activity compared to the smooth and slow-moving view from the deck.

#17

I had a childhood experience of rivers when I was nine, when my parents arranged for me and my sister to live on a mobile houseboat for a month during the summer vacation. We traveled through a network of rivers from the charmingly tame Dhaleshwari to the magnificent Meghna.

#18

The rivers of Bengal are a main source of the region’s traditional prosperity, but they are also an unpredictable hazard for human life and security. The names of these rivers reflect this ambivalent nature.

#19

I had a breakthrough when I realized that the biggest island in