Dr. Anuradha Luther Maitra was born in Delhi, attended CJM, MH and DSE in the city before moving to California to attend Stanford University. She is an economist who feels privileged to have been trained and guided by Professors Amartya Sen, Sukhamoy Chakravarty, David Starrett, Tibor Scitovsky and Kanti Sastri. She has two husbands– one ‘late’ but very much alive in her two children and five grandchildren, and one that she lives with in the SF Bay Area (even though her head largely exists in the non-profit ether these days). From the beginning, she has loved US modes of informal, first-name interactions with professors, friends, and even acquaintances, but she respects the right of (sometimes strange) strangers like US Presidents to insist on the deference of title and last-name. She likes to introduce herself with her HIPIWNB license-plate– she supports freedom, fairness and plurality (modern code-words for democracy, constitutionality and diversity) everywhere, as much in India as in the US.