Viswa-Bharati Denies Permission for a Lecture on Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen
19 August 2025 | The Wire
New Delhi: Often at the centre of controversies, West Bengal’s Visva-Bharati university has once again made headlines – this time for disallowing a lecture on Nobel laureate Amartya Sen from being held in its library auditorium.
The lecture was organised by a Bengali little Magazine, Anustup, and was scheduled to take place on August 14. The lecture was to be delivered by renowned economist Jean Dreze, the Hindu reported.
The magazine had recently published a special issue on Sen in collaboration with the university’s Department of Economics and Politics and the A.K. Dasgupta Centre for Planning and Development….