postulating an affinity: Amartya Sen on capability and Tagore
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Mahatma Gandhi was visiting Rabindranath Tagore’s School in Santiniketan, just outside Calcutta, India. A young girl approached him for an autograph. In her book he penned this entry: “Never make a promise in haste. Having once made it fulfil it at the cost of your life.” His words have crossed my mind more than once, especially the first part of the entry “never make a promise in haste” during the composition of this essay. I wondered whether the promise to deliver a keynote address1 was made too quickly, and whether I could deliver on it even at the cost of my life.
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