Nobel prize winner and internationally acclaimed economist Amartya Sen’s family on Tuesday denied news circulated on social media that the economist has died.
Earlier, several posts on X (formerly Twitter) claiming that Sen had died went viral.
“It is fake news. I have just spent a week with him in our family home in Cambridge. He is absolutely fine, teaching two courses a week, as healthy as always,” the economist’s daughter Nandana Dev Sen told PTI.
She also posted the denial on the micro-blogging site.
The fake news about the death of the philosopher-economist, who will turn 90 this November, began spreading after it was posted on a fake account of Claudia Goldin, this year’s Nobel prize winner in economics.
Born in 1933 in West Bengal’s Shantiniketan, Amartya Sen became the first Indian economist to win the Nobel Prize in Economics.
He is also known for his authorship of numerous books.
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