Nobel Laureate, recipient of Bharat Ratna and famed economist Amartya Sen is well-known for his economic theories and concepts. But did you know that this esteem economist was named ‘Amartya’ by another legendary Nobel Laureate?

Nobel Prize Organisation took to Instagram to share an interesting fact about Sen. It said that he got his ‘unusual’ name from none other than Rabindranath Tagore, who was the first non-European Nobel Prize winner for Literature in 1913.