Letter to BS: Deliberate attempts to insult Abhijit Banerjee are ridiculous

It is the team which has got the Nobel Prize, not only Banerjee.

This refers to a statement of Rahul Sinha, the National Secretary of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), on Nobel Laureate Abhijit Banerjee that was reported in Business Standard on October 20. Sinha said, “Those people whose second wives are foreigners are mostly getting the Nobel prize. I don’t know whether it is a degree for getting the Nobel.” 

This is not only a deliberate insult to Banerjee but also Amartya Sen. It is a ridiculous statement that one does not even have to disprove. One can only mention that Banerjee’s wife Esther Dufflo is not just a foreigner but a professor at