Amartya Sen lacks sense of humour....

I just couldn't help sharing this. Times of India (April 21, 2009) Front page just below masthead one of the lead stories:
MULAYAM'S PROMISE TO BAN ENGLISH LEAVES AMARTYA SEN FUMING

It's a cracker of a story Amartya Sen either lacks understanding of humour or he lacks it completely. At least in this case, he completely missed the joke of our reverend leader Dharti putra (the son of the soil or shall i say soiled son) Mulayam Singh Yadav.
(Visualize: on his left his right hand man Amar Singh thinking about the next Bollywood star in his party and on his right Big B not this time it's Jhappi-Pappi Sanjay Dutt).

Mulayam Singh cracks this joke before every election BAN ENGLISH...BAN COMPOOTER, and gets votes because of his sense humour. And poor Nobel laureate Amartya Sen started fearing that Nobel Academy might ask him translate all his work in Hindi because of Mulayam.

Sir ji – No worries…it was a joke. Sada (our) Mulayam is quite mulayam (soft) on this promise in his election manifesto.