Abhijit was an economist by accident, but is an ace cook, says mother Nirmala

A brilliant student who never ranked first in school, a bits-and-pieces sportsman, an ace cook, a complete family man and an economist by accident — that is how Nirmala Banerjee (83) describes her elder son, Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee, hours after she got news of him bagging the economics Nobel, along with his wife Esther Duflo.

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