WRT: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mukto-mona/message/27089

Sen was a Lamont University Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Harvard
University. He taught Feminism and human right in Harvard besides his epic on
women discrimination:
"The Sexual Division of Labor and the Working Class Family". He was also editor
of the Journal Feminist Economist and viewed as a scholar of feminism in the
scale of Karl Marx and not Humayun Azad!

His article "Tagore and His India" is considered one of the finest work [
perhaps the best work when comes to understanding Tagore's socialism,
nationalism and internationalism]. His knowledge of Tagore was well spoken by
his first wife Nabanita Dev Sen who herself is a famous writer. It is that, he
didn't write 'too many' trash on Tagore.
So what you think as fallacy, in reality is poverty of knowledge about Amartya
Sen.

I do not think Tagore was too influenced by Victorian culture. True that I heard
of Humayun Azad for the first time in MM and never in any circle of West
Bengal. Also it does not look to me that Mr Azad's writing is too thought
provoking or he understood Rabindra Darshan to say the least.

However, till I write in details about his misunderstanding, my words do not
mean much. Hence, till I take enough time to prove his follies, perhaps I should
not comment. Sunil, Buddha all misunderstood Tagore at younger age and in later
age they changed their statement. We are unfortunate that Mr Azad didn't live
long enough to change his view.

-Biplab