Abhijeet Banerjee, NobelPrize, JNU, Demonetisation Criticism and Tihar
is Indian connections are in the media after Indian Economist Abhijit Banerjee was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics this year. Read More
Abhijeet Banerjee may not be a citizen of India today, but his personality has been Indian in the true sense. See if you are not sure Abhijeet Banerjee was born in Mumbai.
But his studies were done in Kolkata city of West Bengal. While he stayed in New Delhi for higher education.
His parents Nirmala and Deepak Banerjee have been well-known economists of this country. His mother Nirmala was from Mumbai, while his father was from Kolkata. The special thing is that Abhijeet Banerjee’s full name is Abhijeet Vinayak Banerjee. The middle Vinayak is of Siddhi Vinayak temple in Mumbai.
Abhijeet Banerjee completed his Bachelor’s degree from Presidency College after completing his studies from Kolkata’s South Point School. He then moved to JNU, pursuing an MA in Economics. He continued to study here from 1981 to 1983.
Abhijeet Banerjee had to face the question many times why he finally chose to come to JNU for studies. It was also said that he probably did not get admission in Delhi School of Economics. Read More
But Abhijeet Banerjee himself has written about this, “The truth is that I went to D-School (Delhi School of Economics) and my father also probably wanted me to go there. But since I have visited both these places ( JNU and Delhi School of Economics) I had made up my mind. JNU was different. Its beauty was completely different. D-school is like any other Indian institution. The students dressed in kurta-pajamas from Idi or Fab India used to argue on JNU stones and not know what.
“It is true that all my best friends now went to D-School. However, I made many friends in JNU too. Arun Raman, Janki Nair, Manoj Pandey, Pragati Mahapatra, Sanjay Sharma, Shankar Raghuraman, Srikumarji, and Venu Rajamony and how many more became close friends. But the most important thing was the teacher of JNU with whom I got the opportunity to meet. On the very first day in JNU, Professor Mukherjee and Professor Sengu I got the opportunity to talk to the husband, which I still remember. “
“On the very first day, I also got a chance to see Professor Jain. I was most surprised that he talked about economics and also how important it is to have a different view in any case. In D-school, I used to only hear who went to America for higher education or who was going to go to IIM or who was going to IIM. I knew where to go. is.”
Though Abhijeet Banerjee would hardly have thought that while his name would be discussed worldwide, his background name would also go side by side in his background. This university has been a target of Modi supporters and Bharatiya Janata Party supporters for some time.
But the special thing is that when the uproar about JNU started on February 2016, Abhijeet Banerjee wrote an article — We Need Thinking Spaces Like JNU and The Government Must Stay Out of It That We Like JNU The need of the place and the government should definitely stay out of there.
In this article, he also told how he had to stay in Tihar Jail with his friends in 1983, when the Vice-Chancellor of JNU risked his life with these students. In his article, he wrote, “It is the summer of 1983. We JNU students surrounded the Vice-Chancellor. They wanted to expel the President of our student union from the campus at that time. During the siege demonstration in the country The Congress was the government, the police came and took away hundreds of students. We had to stay in Tihar Jail for ten days, even beaten. But then there was no case like treason. Audience was. Were charged with attempted murder. Ten days had to stay in prison. “
Abhijeet Banerjee is not only in the opposition camp due to JNU connection, but he has been critical of the Modi government’s policies from time to time. Along with this, he has prepared the blueprint of the opposition Congress Party’s main election campaign justice plan. If you look at both of them, then you can consider Abhijeet Banerjee in the allegedly ‘anti-national’ category, but Prime Minister Modi has congratulated him on winning the award.
Just fifty days after the Modi government’s biggest economic decision demonetisation, Banerjee, the International Professor of Economics at Ford Foundation-MIT, told the news in an interview, “I have not understood the logic behind this decision. Like 2000 rupees Why the notes have been issued. I think this crisis is much bigger than the crisis being reported due to this decision. “
Not only this, he was included in the panel of 108 economists who accused the Modi government of manipulating the real figures of the country’s GDP. It included economists like Jean Dreze, Jati Ghosh, Ritika Khera.
When the Nobel Prize was announced to Abhijeet Banerjee, many economists have started to relate his contribution to Harvard University’s hard work. This was done due to the kind of statement of Prime Minister Modi in which he said — Hard work is more powerful than Harvard.
Three people include Ishtar Duffalo, partner of Abhijeet Banerjee, who is the youngest woman to win the Nobel in economics. She is just the second woman to win the Nobel in economics.
After the award was announced, Ishtar Duffalo said in the press conference, “Seeing that women can be successful, many women will be inspired and many men will be able to honour women.”
Before Duffalo, Abhijeet Banerjee married Arundhati Tuli Banerjee for the first time, Tuli is also a lecturer of literature at MIT. Abhijeet and Arundhati studied together in Kolkata and also reached MIT. They both have a son. However, the two later separated.
Then came MIT professor Ishtar Duffalo in Abhijeet’s life. They both also have a son. These people started living in live-in before marriage. The two married in 2015, three years after the birth of their son.
Originally published at https://www.mubahisa.in.