New Delhi: Amartya Sen has 490 friends on Facebook - including a physiology professor from Kolkata and graduate from Oxford. He is a fan of Pakistani poet Josh Malihabadi, and, curiously, supports free- market libertarian Ludwig von Mises.
The problem is, this is not the 76-year-old Nobel laureate. He may seen least likely to have a Facebook imposter, but, Sen is a victim of identity theft.
The imposter contradicts Sen's political views. Sen was alerted to this contradiction in Italy. While checking into his hotel in San Felice Circeo, Italy, Luce, a registration clerk, told Sen that he had been following him on Facebook.
Sen says he was "absolutely shocked" by what he saw. "I had no clue what the could be talking about, but there I was in what pretended to be a Facebook site run by me, with a picture of mine [real] and date of birth [real], replying to others with easy abandon - telling them what to read and what to avoid, corresponding in first person," he says.
What bothered the economist most is the fact that the imposter is propagating views completely contradictory to his own.
Hindustan Times' attempts to contact the fake Mr Sen received no reply.
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