Death news of Amartya Sen go viral, daughter Nandana denies

Daughter cleared the air of her father’s death rumours, after media reports went viral claiming that the Nobel prize winning economist Amartya Sen passed away at the age of 89, his daughter Nandana Deb Sen had to go on record on Tuesday to say that her father has not passed away. News agency PTI tweeted […]

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Daughter cleared the air of her father’s death rumours, after media reports went viral claiming that the Nobel prize winning economist Amartya Sen passed away at the age of 89, his daughter Nandana Deb Sen had to go on record on Tuesday to say that her father has not passed away.

News agency PTI tweeted earlier: “Nobel prize winner in economics Claudia Goldin tweets Amartya Sen has died minutes ago”. After a brief check and the eye opening statement of economist Amartya Sen’s daughter it turned out that the account which tweeted in Goldin’s name is a fake account.

Minutes later, news agency PTI tweeted that Sen’s daughter had clarified that her father was alive and well.