Stockholm, Dec. 10 -- Dressed in authentic Bengali attire, Indian-American Economist Abhijit Banerjee, along with his wife Esther Duflo, received the Nobel Prize in Economics here in Sweden for their "experimental approach to alleviating global poverty."

As the global audience watched, a dhoti-clad Abhijit Banerjee received the honour along with his wife, who also happened to wear a blue saree teaming it up with a red blouse leaving the Bengali community happily surprised.Banerjee became the second Indian after Amartya Sen to win the Nobel prize in Economics.Sen had won it in 1998.Born in Kolkata, Abhijit Banerjee is currently the Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.Banerjee w...