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On the name "Amartya"
The Bengali male name means "One who has transcended the confines of the this earthly life". The Bengali Nobel laureate poet Rabindranath Tagore named a boy "Amartya" (Amartya Sen), who later won the Nobel prize for Economics.
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On the name "Amitava"  ·  gulliver  ·  4/30/2005, 2:40 PM
On the name "Amartya"  ·  gulliver  ·  4/30/2005, 2:47 PM