{"id":1787,"date":"2018-07-08T18:50:46","date_gmt":"2018-07-08T13:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.22.110.190\/english\/?p=1787"},"modified":"2021-01-05T03:14:06","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T21:44:06","slug":"india-moving-backwards-since-2014-says-amartya-sen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/india-moving-backwards-since-2014-says-amartya-sen\/","title":{"rendered":"India moving backwards since 2014, says Amartya Sen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div>Criticising the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government, Nobel laureate Amartya Sen <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1668202624\"><span class=\"aQJ\">on Sunday<\/span><\/span> said that despite being the fastest-growing economy in the world, India has been continuously moving backwards and has taken &#8220;quantum jump in the wrong direction&#8221; since 2014.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>During the launch of the Hindi translation of his book &#8216;An Uncertain Glory: India and its Contradiction&#8217;, Sen said that\u00a0the government has not focused on the issues of inequalities, the caste system and the schedules tribes.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Mentioning the recent report of a Dalit youth being thrashed by his employer in Madhya Pradesh as the former asked for salary, Sen said the Dalits were struggling enormously in India. They don&#8217;t have any certainty whether they would get their next meal.<\/div>\n<div class=\"yj6qo ajU\">\n<div id=\":lk\" class=\"ajR\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Hide expanded content\" data-tooltip=\"Hide expanded content\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ajT\" src=\"https:\/\/ssl.gstatic.com\/ui\/v1\/icons\/mail\/images\/cleardot.gif\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"adL\">\n<div>Sen also came down heavily on the Centre for using Hindu identity as a means of winning elections.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"HOEnZb adL\">\n<div class=\"adm\"><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Criticising the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government, Nobel laureate Amartya Sen on Sunday said that despite being the fastest-growing economy in the world, India has been continuously moving backwards and has taken &#8220;quantum jump in the wrong direction&#8221; since 2014. During the launch of the Hindi translation of his book &#8216;An Uncertain Glory: India and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"featured_media":1788,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1787","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nation"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/279"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1787"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=1787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}