Vice-Chancellor’s Feedback Towards Amartya Sen Baseless: Visva-Bharati College Frame

Kolkata:

An organisation of the academics of Visva-Bharati on Wednesday alleged that its Vice-Chancellor Prof Bidyut Chakraborty made baseless feedback in opposition to economist Amartya Sen that the Nobel laureate instructed him to prevent hawker eviction power from close to his Santiniketan place of abode and presented himself as a “Bharat Ratna” all over the telephone name.

Sudipta Bhattacharya, president of the Visva-Bharati College Affiliation, advised PTI that Mr Sen’s college assistant at Harvard College, Chie Ri, despatched a mail to him on behalf of the economist mentioning that he does now not recall having this type of dialog with the VC in recent years.

Mr Bhattacharya mentioned that the VC had claimed all over a up to date on-line assembly with the school that he had were given a telephone name from an individual who presented himself as “Bharat Ratna Amartya Sen” and asked him to not evict hawkers from close to that area as Mr Sen’s “daughter buys greens from them”.

The Affiliation president stated that he had despatched a mail to Mr Sen concerning the VC’s remark and were given a answer on Tuesday from Ri.

“I don’t assume I’ve had this sort of dialog with him. I must additionally point out that I had by no means referred to myself as Bharat Ratna. I additionally don’t assume I can have referred to my daughter purchasing greens from the hawkers and that being a reason why for maintaining the hawkers undisturbed.

“I have no idea the place my daughters purchase greens. That might be no reason why anyway to usher in the query of ways the hawkers must be handled. In any case, there aren’t any hawkers out of doors my house in Santiniketan,” the mail, purportedly despatched through Mr Sen’s college assistant, learn.

The VC or every other senior legit of the central college may now not be reached for feedback.

In a conversation to his college colleagues two days again, Mr Bhattacharya stated, “We got here to understand from VC that Professor Sen is a particularly egocentric one who sought after that side road hawkers close to his area must now not be evicted as her daughter used to shop for issues from them.”

It was once additionally claimed that Prof Sen refused to donate his area for hawking actions when asked through the VC, Bhattacharya alleged.

Within the mail despatched from the ID of his college assistant, Mr Sen stated, “I do assume alternatively that Visva Bharati regularly interferes an excessive amount of with the traditional lifetime of strange other people, of which putting in place partitions to intrude with tactics and passages of other people is a great instance.”

Hassle erupted on the Visva Bharati campus on August 17 as numerous other people ransacked the college’s houses protesting the development of a boundary wall at a floor the place the well-known Pous Mela is held.

“I additionally keep in mind my mom, who in fact lived in our house (Pratichi) did attempt to assist hawkers from eviction, now not out of doors our house (since there aren’t any hawkers there), however close to Pearson Palli. All that is, in fact, moderately unrelated to the absurd observation that the Vice Chancellor has allegedly made,” Mr Sen purportedly stated within the mail.

The economist’s mom Amita Sen died at Santiniketan in 2005.