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But much of my childhood was, in fact, spent in Dhaka, and I began my formal education there, at St. Gregory's School.
But the idea that I should be a teacher and a researcher of some sort did not vary over the years.
Calcutta itself, despite its immensely rich intellectual and cultural life, provided many constant reminders of the proximity of unbearable economic misery, and not even an elite college could ignore its continuous and close presence.
During three childhood years (between the ag... (more Amartya Sen quotes)
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