Mass Hindu migration from B'desh unlikely in face of current crisis: Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee
Speaking exclusively to PTI during his recent visit to the city to participate in a curtain-raiser event of the 16th edition of the Apeejay Kolkata Literary Festival, where his latest title 'Chhaunk: On Food, Economics and Society' was launched, Banerjee said he felt India's «explicit political preference for Hindu migrants from Bangladesh» is what prompted the population to leave their homeland in the past, rather than the attacks on the community.
«People always leave for another country where they have their families or to a richer nation where the economic opportunities are higher,» the Nobel laureate said, «I am not surprised that Hindu Bengalis have left Bangladesh and settled in, say, large pockets of Assam because of India's overt preference for Hindus instead of Muslims.»
«I am not saying that persecution would, under no circumstances, lead to exodus on a large scale. But it's a presumption I don't agree with. The reasons for mass migration have been widely documented by both economists and sociologists across the globe. Persecution has never been the primary determinant. I would actually like to see some data on that before passing a judgement,» he continued.
'Chhaunk', Banerjee's latest work, is a cookbook with a difference.
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