Bengali Quote by Abhijit Banerjee

“I was an Indian with zero sense of caste till I was 20. That's an unusual privilege but it came out of the fact that I was a middle-class Bengali.” quote by Abhijit Banerjee — Download Open image

“I was an Indian with zero sense of caste till I was 20. That's an unusual privilege but it came out of the fact that I was a middle-class Bengali.”

Abhijit Banerjee

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