India, March 31 -- An artist and an economist walk across a bridge.
If that sounds like the start of something, well, it has been. Nobel Prize-winning economist Abhijit Banerjee, 63 (below) and artist and graphic novelist Sarnath Banerjee, 52 (bottom), are working on an unusual project together.
Water Wars, which they have nicknamed The Insubordinate Lecture Series, is a mixed-media video-art series that aims to bridge the gap between the dryness of academic discourse and the vibrancy of everyday life. It's an idea they came up with while on one of their long walks together.
The project consists of two short films (with a third in the making) that seek to trace the social, historical and economic roots of India's evolving water crises, t...