Tagore and his India by Amartya Sen.:The Existence and Discovery of Beauty

Nobel Prize

Imagine being named by Literature Laureate Rabindranath Tagore - that is exactly what happened to Amartya Sen.
Tagore suggested Sen’s unusual first name to his mother. 'Amartya' means immortal (Bengali অমর্ত্য ômorto, lit. "immortal"). Later Sen would attend Tagore’s experimental school at Santiniketan, India.
Sen was awarded the Prize in Economic Sciences in 1998 "for his contributions to welfare economics". 85 years earlier Tagore was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Read Sen's article on Tagore: https://bit.ly/2HKLdrt
Photo: Amartya Sen is pictured in his home in Cambridge in front of two photographs of Rabindranath Tagore and his grandfather Kshitimohan Sen with Mahatma Gandhi in 1941 and a map of the Trinity grounds in Cambridge.

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Tagore and his India

by Amartya Sen*

Read Sen's article on Tagore: https://bit.ly/2HKLdrt
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1913/tagore/article/

He would have been much happier with the postwar emergence of Japan as a peaceful power. Then, too, since he was not free of egotism, he would also have been pleased by the attention paid to his ideas by the novelist Yasunari Kawabata and others.25

Yasunari Kawabata

25. Kawabata made considerable use of Tagore’s ideas, and even built on Tagore’s thesis that it “is easier for a stranger to know what it is in [Japan] which is truly valuable for all mankind” (The Existence and Discovery of Beauty, pp. 55-58).





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The Existence and Discovery of Beauty Hardcover – Jan. 1 1969
by Yasunai Kawabata (Author), The Mainichi Newspapers (Editor), none (Illustrator)


1969年（昭和44年）1月27日に、国会両院でノーベル文学賞受賞感謝決議に出席し、祝意を受け、同月29日には初孫・あかり（女児）が誕生した^[31][33]。3月から6月にかけて、日本文学の講演を行なうためにハワイ大学に赴き、5月1日に『美の存在と発見』と題する特別講演を行なった。