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Wednesday, July 29, 2015

Nasika...

Kaushik Basu is a renowned economist who has worked with GoI in the past and is currently engaged with the World Bank. Mr. Basu is also credited with modifying the Su-doku and making it a two player game called Dui-doku. Apart from this he has also taught at Cornell Univ. In a newspaper article he recalled his meeting with a renowned personality and his curiosity about the surname of that person led to the revelation that it's origin lay in a Sanskrit word "nasika" (for nose). 

Basu's meeting with whom was he describing?

Wednesday, July 29, 2015

Nasika...

Kaushik Basu is a renowned economist who has worked with GoI in the past and is currently engaged with the World Bank. Mr. Basu is also credited with modifying the Su-doku and making it a two player game called Dui-doku. Apart from this he has also taught at Cornell Univ. In a newspaper article he recalled his meeting with a renowned personality and his curiosity about the surname of that person led to the revelation that it's origin lay in a Sanskrit word "nasika" (for nose). 

Basu's meeting with whom was he describing?