What are Nobel winners really like?

October 15, 2019 11:18

"If Abhijit has inspired me to cook better, Esther has helped me with parenting advice. I sleep-trained my six-month-old (which let me tell is you is a severely traumatic experience) with Esther's handholding across the oceans. She is all about tough love. When my two-year-old started acting up -- those terrible, terrible twos -- she was the first person I wrote to.

"Abhijit is a classic Bengali - a renaissance man who makes documentaries, is eloquent and talkative about the differences between the Bronte sisters and Jane Austen, and who sends me the most wonderful playlists of Hindustani music which he knows a great deal about. Esther is quieter when you meet her, but quick as an arrow, fiercely independent and tough and cool, a rock climber and the person who makes the family's clocks run on time."

Read the column here

Chiki Sarkar on the Nobel economics prize winners -- the husband-wife team of Dr Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo. Their book, Good Economics for Hard Times, published by Juggernaut will be released next week.

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