{"id":167868,"date":"2023-10-10T19:13:47","date_gmt":"2023-10-10T13:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=167868"},"modified":"2023-10-11T18:12:31","modified_gmt":"2023-10-11T12:42:31","slug":"news-of-amartya-sens-passing-false-confirms-nobel-laureates-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/news-of-amartya-sens-passing-false-confirms-nobel-laureates-family\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;News&#8217; of Amartya Sen&#8217;s passing false, confirms Nobel Laureate&#8217;s family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A claim that Nobel laureate Amartya Sen has passed away went viral on social media on October 10. On X (formerly Twitter), a handle named after the winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics 2023, Claudia Goldin, shared the news first. &#8220;A terrible news. My dearest Professor Amartya Sen has died minutes ago. No words&#8221;, read the tweet. (<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20231010115448\/https:\/\/twitter.com\/profCGoldin\/status\/1711701739861057965?t=0t0lCMnbUYoSLlqJs1lz3w&amp;s=08\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Archive<\/a>)<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">A terrible news. My dearest Professor Amartya Sen has died minutes ago. No words. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/giIdK0t2XA\">pic.twitter.com\/giIdK0t2XA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Claudia Goldin (@profCGoldin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/profCGoldin\/status\/1711701739861057965?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 10, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thereafter, several news media outlets including <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20231010115153\/https:\/\/twitter.com\/pti_news\/status\/1711709354058215512?s=46&amp;t=uhavtqyBfHTpYTbRgG5sWg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Press Trust of India<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20231010115820\/https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/veteran-economist-and-nobel-laureate-amartya-sen-passes-away-at-89\/articleshow\/104316299.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Times of India<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20231010115056\/https:\/\/www.deccanherald.com\/india\/amartya-sen-economics-nobel-prize-winner-dead-2720320\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Deccan Herald<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20231010115051\/https:\/\/zeenews.india.com\/india\/breaking-nobel-laureate-amartya-sen-passes-away-aged-89-2673504.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Zee News<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20231010114924\/https:\/\/www.freepressjournal.in\/india\/breaking-nobel-laureate-amartya-sen-dies-at-89\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Free Press Journal<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20231010115113\/https:\/\/www.deccanchronicle.com\/nation\/current-affairs\/101023\/economics-nobel-prize-winner-claudia-goldin-shares-amartya-sensdeat.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Deccan Chronicle<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20231010120734\/https:\/\/www.firstpost.com\/india\/nobel-laureate-and-indian-economist-amartya-sen-passes-away-13229902.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Firstpost<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20231010115936\/https:\/\/hindi.moneycontrol.com\/news\/india\/nobel-laureate-and-indian-economist-amartya-sen-passes-away-1537131.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Moneycontrol Hindi<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20231010120528\/https:\/\/www.etvbharat.com\/marathi\/maharashtra\/bharat\/amartya-sen-died-nobel-prize-winner-economist-amartya-sen-died-on-10-oct-2023\/mh20231010171857766766499\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ETV Bharat<\/a>, published the news.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-167868 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-full'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/news-of-amartya-sens-passing-false-confirms-nobel-laureates-family\/chrome_4heablecg2\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1433\" height=\"1094\" 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We reached out to Dr Sen&#8217;s daughter, Antara Dev Sen, who informed us that he&#8217;s doing fine.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, Dr Sen&#8217;s other daughter, Nandana Sen, took to <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20231010122003\/https:\/\/twitter.com\/nandanadevsen\/status\/1711716130144841880\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a> to refute the viral claims. &#8220;Friends, thanks for your concern but it\u2019s fake news: Baba is totally fine&#8230;&#8221;, she wrote.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Friends, thanks for your concern but it\u2019s fake news: Baba is totally fine. We just spent a wonderful week together w\/ family in Cambridge\u2014his hug as strong as always last night when we said bye! He is teaching 2 courses a week at Harvard, working on his gender book\u2014busy as ever! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Fd84KVj1AT\">pic.twitter.com\/Fd84KVj1AT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nandana Sen (@nandanadevsen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nandanadevsen\/status\/1711716130144841880?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 10, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif\">The Twitter account @profCGoldin that first tweeted this news does not belong to Dr Claudia Goldin. We found that Dr Goldin has another Twitter account with the username @PikaGoldin that has been tagged by the official handles of <\/span><a style=\"background-color: #ffffff;font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ScienceAcad_swe\/status\/1711321307852194217?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences<\/a><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif\"> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NobelPrize\/status\/1711341934361370756\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Nobel Prize<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Therefore, the viral claim on social media stating that Amartya Sen has passed away is false.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A claim that Nobel laureate Amartya Sen has passed away went viral on social media on October 10. On X (formerly Twitter), a handle named after the winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics 2023, Claudia Goldin, shared the news first. &#8220;A terrible news. My dearest Professor Amartya Sen has died minutes ago. 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