He is an Indian-American professor of Gujarati origin, whose two brothers have also made names for themselves in Indian legal and medicinal circles. In July 2013, Bibek Debroy listed seven reasons why he never won the Nobel Prize for economics adding that the man "has won a fictional Nobel in a 2010 episode of The Simpsons. I fear it will remain that way."
Who is this personality who, in mid-2013, waged a war of words with his contemporary from right across his native state?
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