Home in the World
A Memoir

Here, Amartya Sen reflects on Myanmar. Using his own association and acquaintanceship of Aung San Suu Kyi, he talks of the transformation if an entire population, a “gentle” one into a completely different one, which has so much time for hate, thanks to propaganda.

He wonders about why Suu Kyi’s party “remained oddly passive duri g the period when the military was deliberately distorting the image of the Rohingyas and inciting others to violence against them”

He cautions Indians about lessons “not only those of ethics and morality, but alsi those of political wisdom and if pragmatic political reasoning.” He speaks about the need to resist the domination of “terrible manifestations of intolerance” of which Burma provides “a most distressing example”.

Much more here, to learn, think about and re-read.