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Stockholm, Dec eleven (IANS) Indian-American economist Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee, and his French-American wife Esther Duflo have been conferred the Nobel Prize for Economics in Sweden here, alongside their American colleague Michael Kremer.
not like different laureates, who arrived in tuxedos and fancy crimson Carpet clothes, the couple glorified the distinguished occasion in average Indian attire.
Abhijit wore a black bandhgala jacket paired with an off-white dhoti, and spouse Esther wore a blue, two-toned saree, whereas Michael Kremer was spotted donning a black swimsuit.
'The Nobel Prize' tweeted "Watch Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer receive their medals and diplomas at the #NobelPrize award ceremony nowadays. Congratulations!
They were awarded the 2019 Prize in financial Sciences "for their experimental approach to assuaging world poverty."
The Twitter put up become flooded with feedback and congratulatory desires from across the world, with 1.4K retweets and 3.6K likes.
The three economists had been awarded medals and the prize cash of 9 million Swedish krona (approx Rs 6.7 crore), which should be shared amongst them.
As "#AbhijitBanerjee" traits on Twitter, tweeple are praising the couple's apparel, announcing "second of satisfaction for Indians as Abhijeet Banerjee and his spouse acquired largest prize on earth... donning Indian attire is icing on cake".
while an additional wrote: "We live in an era where individuals are banning movies and pre wedding shootings for cultural in-approproation , whereas modern Indians like #AbhijitBanerjee and her better half are showing the world what Indian culture is. thank you for making us proud sir."
Massachusetts Institute of technology professor Banerjee, an alumnus of Jawaharlal Nehru institution and the college of Calcutta, is the second grownup of Indian starting place to be awarded the prize after Amartya Sen who bought it in 1988.
he's the tenth grownup of Indian starting place or citizenship to win a Nobel.
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