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" People's identities as Indians, as Asians, or as members of the human race, seemed to give way - quite suddenly - to sectarian identification with Hindu, Muslim, or Sikh communities. "

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" I have not had any serious non-academic job. "

" From the mid-1970s, I also started work on the causation and prevention of famines. "

" The student community of Presidency College was also politically most active. "

" When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions, including literacy, basic health care and gender equity, aimed specifically at India and Bangladesh. "

" I left Delhi, in 1971, shortly after Collective Choice and Social Welfare was published in 1970. "

" But the idea that I should be a teacher and a researcher of some sort did not vary over the years. "