Nobel laureate Amartya Sen is known worldwide of making sense in his arguments. Taking this further about his previous argument on ‘India taking a quan-tum leap in the wrong direction after 2014’, he stood by his point and added that ‘Dalits and minorities have become victims of organised killing’ at a televised face-off with NITI Aayog Vice-Chairman Rajiv Kumar on a television channel recently.
In the face-off, televised on NDTV, Sen said, “Dalits and minorities have become victims of organised killing” and the government has to take responsi-bility. Mobocracy and despotism make people live in fear. It is a terrible thing to happen, whether or not it affects the economy. The central issue is that of liberty and democracy.”
However, Sen’s comments were not welcomed by Kumar and he responded back saying that the Nobel laureate has not done any good by ‘spreading this talk of living in fear, because you are the one who is quoted’. To which Sen replied, “India is a great country. There are people in India who feel that government action is not adequate, that the government has not done enough to make minorities and Dalits to feel comfortable, then India will cease to be a great country.” But, with impeccable knowledge on economics, Sen reverted back saying that demonetisation was a despotic decision.
