Nirmala Sitharaman and Nobel laureate Esther Duflo have one thing in common
Nirmala Sitharaman, India’s first full-time female finance minister, and Esther Duflo, the second woman to win the Nobel Prize for Economics, found out on the same day (Oct. 14) that who they are married to will define public commentary on them more than their achievements or failures. Every woman can relate to this: the sheer reluctance in our society to ever view women as being independent of a man. Indeed, the economy is one giant chink in the Narendra Modi government’s armour.
