Bhagwati responds to personal assaults

The vicious personal assaults on me (Getting the facts right; Letters, September 4) by Mr Ram of the Hindu and three more of Mr Amartya Sen's friends - was their case so flawed and flimsy that it took four to take me on? - as being "offensive and abusive" against Mr Sen and as indulging in "personal attacks" against him need a brief response.  The Bhagwati-Panagariya book, titled India's Tryst with Destiny, was published in India by HarperCollins to great interviews in print media and on TV in December last year.

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