A Wish a Day for a Week

Amartya Sen

Jan 2014 · Penguin UK

About this eBook

In this sparkling, witty and impassioned essay – delivered as the keynote lecture at the Jaipur Literature Festival 2014 – Amartya Sen meets the Goddess of Medium Things who promises him seven wishes, one for each day of the week. As he spars with the goddess who is often bemused by his demands, Sen writes of the seven changes he thinks India needs most, from improving the teaching of humanities to abolishing Article 377. Humorous in tone, yet deeply serious in intent, A Wish a Day for a Week is a marvellous essay and an important blueprint for India’s development from one of our great thinkers.

Ratings and reviews

A Wish a Day for a Week by Amartya Sen is probably a book that some of you are already familiar with. It is actually a lecture delivered by Sen at the Jaipur Literature Festival 2014. The essay, though short, is quite relevant and interesting in a way that in this essay of 15-20 pages, Sen in humorous conversation with the Goddess of Medium Thing delineates the changes that Indian society needs without even once taking a severe didactic stance.

Mr. Sen has tried to put some light on the condition of our country and at the same time wished to change it by "A wish A Day For A Week". Excellent in the way it has been presented to us.

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About the author

AMARYTA SEN is Thomas W. Lamont University Professor, Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Economics, at Harvard University. He won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1998 and was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, 1998–2004. His many books include Choice, Welfare and Measurement; On Economic Inequality; Development as Freedom; Rationality and Freedom; The Argumentative Indian; Identity and Violence; The Idea of Justice; and An Uncertain Glory.