Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee spends a day with mother, calls on Nabaneeta Dev Sen
Kolkata/IBNS: Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee decided to spend the day at leisure with his mother Nirmala Banerjee at their Ballygunge residence in the city away from the media glare.
The Indian origin economist went to meet Sahitya Akademi Award winner novelist and poet Nabaneeta Dev Sen at her home Bhalobasha 72, Hindustan Park.
He spent around an hour at Sen's residence, also the former wife of Amartya Sen, who won the Nobel Prize for economics in 1998 and has been closely associated with the family of Banerjee.
Nabaneeta Dev Sen's daughter, actor and social worker Nandana Sen said Banerjee, whom she calls Jhimada was a close friend of the Dev Sen family and he came to inquire after the health of the ailing writer.
Banerjee exchanged Shubho Bijoya wishes with Sens and had a very cordial discussion with the family.
"We treated him with sweets and snacks," she said, adding that Banerjee presented his latest book "Good Economics for Hard Times" to Nabaneeta Dev Sen and she gave him her book "Bhalobashar Baranda".
Nabaneeta Dev Sen said she was happy that Banerjee came to meet her even during his short visit. "We have been close friends for a long time. The day before yesterday, his mother came to see me," she added.
Since there was too little time, as Banerjee is on a one-day visit to Kolkata, he said he would come to meet the 81-year-old writer, next time, tentatively in January, Nandana sen told media.
The economist then went for shopping to Fab India in the neighbourhood, where he spent around 45 minutes. Fab India store employees said Banerjee purchased a girl's churidar set and a boy's kurta sherwani set from the kid's section.
He also purchased a kurta set from the women's section, they added.
The economist has been a regular at the store, which sells mainly handloom products, the employees said as Banerjee told them.
On Tuesday, a team from Presidency University reached Abhijit Banerjee's residence and handed over a felicitation certificate containing the names of Banerjee and fellow Nobel awardee and wife Esther Duflo.
He is an alumnus of Presidency College now University and did his schooling from South Point School in the city.
Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer won the Nobel Prize for their "experimental approach to alleviating global poverty."
"The research conducted by this year's Laureates has considerably improved our ability to fight global poverty. In just two decades, their new experiment-based approach has transformed development economics, which is now a flourishing field of research," the Nobel committee said in a statement.
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