AMARTYA SEN, born on 3rd November 1933 in West Bengal's Santiniketan, is an Indian economist and a Nobel Laureate. His ancestral home was in Wari. His father Ashutosh Sen was a Professor of Chemistry at Dhaka University. Sen's mother Amita Sen and his father, both were born in Manikganj district of Bangladesh.

Sen completed his B.A. (Honours) degree in Economics from Kolkata and Cambridge University and later earned a PhD from Trinity College, Cambridge. In this age of liberal economics, Mr. Sen is an icon economist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions to famine, welfare economics and for his interest in the problems of society's poorest members.

He believes, in order to reach the peak of economic development, it's most urgent to generate self sufficiency among people. He's relentlessly working on the aspects of economics, human welfare, social safety, hunger, poverty and self-belief of people, spread around the sub-continent and the world. He has received myriad of accolades for his work.

Apart from winning the Nobel, he has received the highest civilian award in India, Bharat Ratna. He was offered the honorary citizenship of Bangladesh by Prime Minister of Sheikh Hasina. He received Leontief Prize for his outstanding contribution to economic theory from the Global Development and Environment Institute. Sen has received over ninety honorary degrees from universities around the world.

DR. AMARTYA SEN is the frontiersman of development and is the pride and the idol figure of Bengal. He gave his precious time for a brief interview session.

Shykh Seraj, Director & Head of News of Channel i interviewed this great visionary man of economics.