Surprise Amartya Sen – Sonia Gandhi

By Vijay Kumar

The FM concluded his reply to the debate on Budget 2009 by quoting Sonia Gandhi, “Let us surprise Professor Amartya Sen by giving up our favourite trait of being ‘unendingly argumentative' and for a change let us be ‘effectively collaborative'.”

Amartya Sen had written a wonderful book, “The Argumentative Indian”.