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Gita Gopinath’s pre-diwali party

attracts brain power

Our Bureau The photo has racked up
New York thousands of ‘likes’ and com-
ments on the microblogging
nternational Monetary platform since being shared.
Fund (IMF) chief econo- Social media was soon abuzz as
Imist Gita Gopinath shared people began wondering about
a picture from her pre-Diwali the collective brainpower in
celebrations and instantly cap- the room.
tured the Internet’s attention “Gita Gopinath just posted
for showing some of the world’s the economist’s version of this
most famous economists in one photo,” wrote one Twitter user,
frame. sharing a famous picture of sci-
The picture, shared on Twit- entists at the Solvay Conference
ter, shows Ms Gopinath, 49, of 1927. The picture, which fea-
with former RBI governor Ra- tures Albert Einstein and Niels
ghuram Rajan and Nobel lau- Bohr among other prominent
reates Esther Duflo and Abhijit of J-PAL and Gita Gopinath’s Esther, Raghu and @iqbaldha- physicists of the time, has often
Banerjee. Also in the photo is husband, Iqbal Dhaliwal. “Fun li,” Ms Gopinath wrote while been hailed as the ‘the most
the Global Executive Director pre-Diwali evening with Abhijit, sharing the picture. intelligent picture’ ever taken.

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