Secularism often used as a bad word, democracy next: Amartya Sen

January 23, 2016 15:38

NDTV reports: Noted economist and Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen said today that the country is in a situation in which "a sense of division is being cultivated along communal lines." The situation has led to secularism being used as a bad word. Democracy and liberty could be next, he said.

"Right now, in the country there is a sense of division that is being cultivated along communal lines, so much so the word secularism is often used as a bad word. It is quite extraordinary," he said. "I am waiting for the day democracy would be used as a bad word and liberty would be used as a bad word," Prof Sen said, speaking at the Netaji Research Institute in Kolkata on the occasion of Subhash Chandra Bose's birth anniversary.

Prof Sen said the present government is not doing enough in dealing with the social inequalities that Netaji was the first to see. "I don't think the independent governments of India, I am on record on that, did enough to pursue the demands of equity and justice and I think the present government is doing even less in dealing with that."

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