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Despite some major achievements like continuous successful democracy, high growth rate and India still being the fastest growing economy of the world, the quality of life of masses and the fundamental social infrastructure contradicts the defined glory. An Uncertain Glory: India and its Contradictions is the recently launched book by Jean Dreze and The Nobel laureate’s Amartya Sen, incited controversy even before it’s released as it advocates redistribution as the key to growth of South Asian Economy. Through his book he expresses his agitation over the lack of systematic medical facility, education system, children & nourishment, proper sanitation and better public services for masses in India. He emphasizes investment on the improvisation and understanding the benefit of providing quality social infrastructure for masses which will felicitate true democracy.

The book is the outcome of the Authors outrage, that despite democracy, why millions of Indians live so wretched. The two authors raise their concern that life of common people in India is worse when compared to its poorer neighbors, Bangladesh and Nepal as India’s social record is unusually grim. The book pin-point strongly on the accountability of Indian rulers towards Indian mass population and the provision of civic amenities against the growth and glory.

The book recommends strong plan of action on understanding and investing on social environment to provide quality life to the masses representing the bottom of pyramid.

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About the Author: Amartya Sen

Amartya Kumar Sen, (born 3 November 1933) is an Indian economist. He has made contributions to welfare economics, social choice theory, economic and social justice, economic theories of famines, and indexes of the measure of well-being of citizens of developing countries. He was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1998. He is currently the Thomas W. Lamont University Professor and Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Harvard University. Sen is a member of the Advisory Board of Incentives for Global Health, the not-for-profit behind the Health Impact Fund. He is the first Indian and the first Asian academic to head an Oxbridge college. He also serves as the first Chancellor of the proposed Nalanda International University.

Sen’s books have been translated into more than thirty languages over a period of forty years.   Sen was one of the 20 Nobel Laureates who signed the "Stockholm Memorandum" at the third Nobel Laureate Symposium on Global Sustainability in Stockholm, Sweden on 18 May 2011.

About The Author: Jean Dreze

Jean Drèze (born Belgium, 1959) is a development economist who has been influential in Indian economic policymaking. He is a naturalized Indian of Belgian origin. His work in India includes issues like hunger, famine, gender inequality, child health and education, and the NREGA. He had conceptualized and drafted the first version of the NREGA.His co-authors include Nobel laureate in economics Amartya Sen, with whom he has written on famine, and Nicholas Stern, with whom he has written on policy reform when market prices are distorted. He is currently an honorary Professor at the Delhi School of Economics, and Visiting Professor at the Department of Economics, Allahabad University. He was a member of the National Advisory Council of India in both first and second term.