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| Prof. Amartya Sen receives honoris causa and also delivers the first Hyderabad Lecture at UoH |
After the investiture ceremony, Prof. Ramakrishna Ramaswamy,
Vice-Chancellor, UoH gave an introduction to the Hyderabad Lecture Series. The
Hyderabad Lecture Series has been initiated with support from an endowment
instituted at University of Hyderabad by Insurance Regulatory Development
Authority (IRDA). The Lecture Series hopes to be an important series of lecture
to contribute to the intellectual capacity of the Hyderabad city on issues of
contemporary interest.
The Lectures will be organized at various public
institutions in the twin cities. The Vice-Chancellor expressed his sincere
thanks to IRDA for this kind gesture. He also expressed his gratitude to Prof.
Sen to accept the invitation to deliver the first Hyderabad Lecture.
Prof. G. Nancharaiah, Dean, School of Economics presented a
glimpse of important contributions of Prof. Sen especially in the area of
economics.
In his lecture, Prof. Amartya Sen emphasized the importance
of dialogue as a solution to deal with day-to-day issues in public and social
life. He gave the example of Coffee House set up where people get a chance to
share their mind on issues and subjects that can’t be discussed in formal
settings like classrooms. These kind of informal settings are extremely
important to discuss about neglected issues and to bring about the change
through democratic means of discussion, voting etc. Students have obvious reasons to discuss
about many things and these informal discussion set-ups are necessary to
facilitate this very important activity, he added.
