70 SOCIAL SCIENTIST and transfer entitlements. These can be reduced to exchang entitlements and ownership entitlements. As has been shown. Sen's analysis of famine is principally in terms of the exchange entitlements. Sen is rather evasive in his treatment of poverty. Although the first chapter of the book is entitled "Poverty and Entitlements95 the discussion is only expository and chapter two on "Concepts of Poverty55 is concerned with questions of definition and measurement. It must be clear that mass poverty - a case of widespread and persisting but orderly starvation which consequently does not hit the headlines - is more closely related to ownership entitlements than to exchange entitlements. And yet Sen, who raises many "Why55 questions regarding exchange, is rather mute when it comes to the "Why55 and "Where of questions of ownership. Sen is quite emphatic and eloquent in rejecting Mollie Orshansky's view that "poverty, like beauty, lies in the eye of the beholder55 but is silent as to what it is. Whether Professor Sen realises it or not his silence is very audible indeed. C T KURIEN Director, Madras Institute of Developmant Studies, Madras.