Amartya Sen’s Hopes and Fears for Indian Democracy
The economist, philosopher, and public intellectual discusses his boyhood in pre-independence India, his decades-long work, and why contemporary politics hasn’t led him toward fatalism.
Photographer: Tony Luong
Publisher: The New Yorker
Format: Digital
Date: 2019/10/06
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“The big thing that we know from John Stuart Mill is that democracy is government by discussion, and, if you make discussion fearful, you are not going to get a democracy, no matter how you count the votes,” Amartya Sen says. Photograph by Tony Luong for The New YorkerTony Luong for The New Yorker