OBITUARY: S. K. Rao

S.K. Rao was born in a village called Gogulumpadu in the Krishna district of Andhra Pradesh, a village that lacked even a post office, for which one had to go to the adjacent village Chintalavalli; and even though he spent years at the Faculty of Economics and Politics at Cambridge, doing his PhD and teaching Economic Statistics to undergraduates, and in London as the Chief Economist of the Commonwealth Secretariat, he always carried a bit of Gogulumpadu with him everywhere.