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Sunday, February 12, 2012
Official Portrait of Amartya Sen at the Nobel Prize
Indian economist Amartya Sen is among nine scholars to receive the USNational Humanities Medal tomorrow. No other Indians have received the medal in the sixteen years since it was introduced.
A White House citation noted "his insights into the causes of poverty, famine, and injustice" and claimed "by applying philosophical thinking to questions of policy, he has changed how standards of living are measured and increased our understanding of how to fight hunger."
Scholars of Indian origin have won National Medals in Science and Engineering but not in Humanities. Introduced in 1996, the medal is awarded to "those individuals or groups whose work has deepened the nation's understanding of the humanities," says the White House.
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