01904cam a2200361Mi 4500 ocn919910022 OCoLC ta 210112s2015 ii b 001 0 eng d 2015487395 9780199453252 (hardback) 019945325X (hardback) 9780198738183 (hardback) 0198738188 (hardback) (OCoLC)919910022 DS437 .S46 2015 Sen, Amartya, 1933- The country of first boys and other essays / Amartya Sen ; edited by Antara Dev Sen, Pratik Kanjilal. Country of first boys 1st ed. New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2015. li, 276 p. Most previously published in The Little Magazine. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Introduction by Gopalkrishna Gandhi -- What Should Keep Us Awake at Night -- Poverty, War and Peace -- The Country of First Boys -- Sharing the World: Interdependence and Global Justice -- Sunlight and Other Fears: The Importance of School Education as a Source of Nourishment for India Children -- Speaking of Freedom: Why Media Is Important for Economic Developmen -- Hunger: Old Torments and New Blunders -- The Smallness Thrust Upon Us -- The Play's the Thing -- India Through Its Calendars -- What Difference Can Tagore Make. Intrigued by the questions of social justice and welfare, Amartya Sen argues, in this book, some of the vital issues-poverty, hunger, education, globalization, media and freedom of speech, injustice, inequality, exclusion, exploitation, etc. - we negotiate with in our day to day lives. Social problems India. Social justice India. India History. Dev Sen, Antara. Kanjilal, Pratik. lcc BK 0 0 0 0 PNLIB PNLIB GEN 2021-06-17 DS437 .S46 2015 PNLIB21060067 2021-06-17 2021-06-17 BK 253 253