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Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz interacts with Presidency University students on Thursday. Stiglitz illustrated the loopholes of the traditional neoclassical approach to economics in his address, ‘Globalisation and its Discontents’, at Presidency University’s Derozio Hall on Thursday. This was the fifth lecture named after Dipak Banerjee, the renowned professor of economics at the erstwhile Presidency College. Stiglitz focused on the shortcomings in the IMF-World Bank-led approach. Mentioning Amartya Sen, he pointed out how poverty persisted despite high growth rates in economies. In the evening, he addressed the 46th convocation of the Indian Statistical Institute. He talked about the impact of global warming and highlighted the threat of ground water depletion in India. Picture by Bhubaneswarananda Halder
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Schoolchildren gather outside the ancestral home of Swami Vivekananda in north Calcutta to mark his birthday on Thursday. Conch-shell blowing at 6.31am, followed by two processions, marked the 149th birth anniversary celebrations. Vedic chantings were held in Belur. Union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee unveiled a half-bust of the monk at a programme at the Ramakrishna Vivekananda Mission, Agarpara. He said the Centre would set up a plaque at the Art Institute of Chicago, where excerpts from Swamiji’s address at the 1893 Parliament of Religions would be displayed. A pictorial ‘cancellation’ on the Swamiji’s ancestral home and a picture postcard were released by S.K. Chakrabarti, the chief postmaster general, West Bengal circle.
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