Home in the World

The extraordinary early life in India and England of one of the world''s leading public intellectuals

Where is ''home''? For Amartya Sen, home has been many places - Dhaka in modern Bangladesh, the little university town of Santiniketan, where he was raised as much by his grandparents as by his parents, Calcutta where he first studied economics and was active in student movements, and Trinity Colle...