Former United Nations Secretary-General and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Kofi Annan has died at the age of 80, his foundation said on 18th August 2018,Saturday. Annan, a Ghanaian national, died in hospital

AS AN Indian who takes inspiration from an 18th- century Scottish economist, a French mathemati- cian, and a renowned Bengali poet, Amartya Sen is a rare species. He successfully bridges philoso- phy,