Actor Nandana Deb Sen on Tuesday denied the death of her father and Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen.
The actor said 90-year-old Amartya Sen is teaching two courses a week at Harvard and working on his gender book.
“Friends, thanks for your concern but it’s fake news: Baba is totally fine. We just spent a wonderful week together w/ family in Cambridge—his 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—busy as ever!” the actor tweeted.
Friends, thanks for your concern but it’s fake news: Baba is totally fine. We just spent a wonderful week together w/ family in Cambridge—his 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—busy as ever! pic.twitter.com/Fd84KVj1AT— Nandana Sen (@nandanadevsen) October 10, 2023
Nandana’s clarification came after several X users shared the news of the veteran economist’s death based on a post from an unverified account in the name of Claudia Goldin.
Born in 1933 in West Bengal’s Santiniketan, Amartya Sen has held professorships in India and at Oxford and Cambridge universities, as well as in the US, including at Harvard University. He received The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel in 1998.