Reviews

The Country of First Boys by Amartya Sen

haaris's review

5.0

Perhaps the easiest of his books to read. The essays are simple, entertaining and in typical Sen style, meaningful.

riahforbes's review

4.0

"Argumentative Indian" is still one of my favourite books of Indian essays, so it was fun to revisit a couple of those along with Sen's newer pieces. I don't get as much out of his more philosophical essays (e.g. the one on justice) as I do from his cultural and historic ones. I absolutely loved the essay on Nalanda University, especially since I knew embarrassingly little about it, as well as the one on Rabindranath Tagore.

readmeanything_'s review against another edition

3.0

I reviewed the book for the LSE Review of Books here: http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/2016/01/11/book-review-the-country-of-first-boys-by-amartya-sen/