: Powerful voice needed when nation is divided and unity destroyed, says Amartya Sen #IndiaNEWS Nobel laureate economist Amartya Sen on Saturday said that India needs a powerful voice at a time when

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Powerful voice needed when nation is divided and unity destroyed, says Amartya Sen #IndiaNEWS
Nobel laureate economist Amartya Sen on Saturday said that India needs a powerful voice at a time when the nation is being divided for “political opportunism�, The Telegraph reported.“We need at this time, when the nation is being divided, between Hindus and Muslims by forces of political opportunism, and our unity is being destroyed, a powerful voice,� Sen said.Sen made the statement in a virtual address at the centenary celebration of Anandabazar Patrika, a Bengali newspaper started in March 1922.Sen recalled the time before India became free of the British regime, PTI reported.“At that time, several people in the country were jailed for political reasons,� Sen said. “I was very young then and often used to question whether this practice of sending people to jail without committing any crime will ever stop.�He said the practice of putting individuals behind bars without proving their guilt of a crime still exists even after Independence.The 88-year-old economist’s comment was in context of activist Umar Khalid, who has been named as one of the accused in the 2020 Delhi violence.The case against Khalid pertains to the clashes that broke out between the supporters of the Citizenship Amendment Act and those opposing it between February 23 and February 26, 2020, in North East Delhi. The violence claimed 53 lives and...Read more

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