Court stays Visva Bharati University’s eviction notice to Amartya Sen The matter will come up for hearing again on September 16, and till then there will be stay on the eviction notice. The Hindu · Aug 8, 2023
Two Nobel winning U.S. economists among 304 write to President against Visva-Bharati Vice-Chancellor The house, Pratichi, is built over 1.38 acres and last April, the university claimed that 13 decimals (0.13 acre) of the land belonged to it and that the economist was occupying it illegally. The Nobel laureate went to the Calcutta High Court, and the matter remains in court. The Hindu · Jul 20, 2023
Visva-Bharati hits out at Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen, calls him ‘a migrant traveller’ The Santiniketan-based Visva-Bharati has issued a press release criticising — without naming him — Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen, whom the university accuses of being in illegal possession of its land. The Hindu · Jul 7, 2023
Disquiet at Santiniketan: protests at Visva-Bharati over eviction notice to Amartya Sen Disquiet at Santiniketan: protests at Visva-Bharati over eviction notice to Amartya Sen. The controversy surrounding the Nobel laureate's ancestral home is part of a larger ideological battle to claim Bengali culture and politics The Hindu · May 11, 2023
Tagore’s birth anniversary celebration overshadowed by protests at Santiniketan In the Rabindranath Tagore-founded Visva-Bharati, protests overshadowed celebrations on the poet’s birth anniversary as a large group of people continued their sit-in against the university’s move to take away a piece of land from the Santiniketan house of Nobel laureate Amartya Sen. The Hindu · May 9, 2023
Amartya Sen moves HC against Visva-Bharati’s eviction order Nobel laureate Amartya Sen moved the Calcutta High Court, appealing against a notice of the Visva-Bharati university that asked him to vacate 13 decimal of land at his Santiniketan residence by May 6. The Hindu · May 4, 2023