I live in Ames, Iowa, a college town of 50,000 or so in the U.S. Midwest with my ex-wife Helle Bunzel, my sons, Nikhil & Niloy, and a Golden Retriever, Bernie. I spent much of my youth in Calcutta (Kolkata), India where I studied at Don Bosco School; then economics at St. Xavier's College. This was followed by two years of masters-level study at the Delhi School of Economics. During 1991-96, I pursued a PhD from Cornell University where I got the benefit of guidance from Karl Shell, Bruce Smith, Tapan Mitra, Kaushik Basu, Larry Blume, among others. Today, I have former students of my own -- Moni Bishnu, Min Wang, Sherry Qiao, Pan Liu, Sher Afghan Asad -- some of whom have doctoral students of their own!