Shakuntala Devi is often described as more a calculating prodigy than a mathematician. Those who stress this do have a point, perhaps, given that she never had any formal training in mathematics ...

Anupama Banerji was born to Shakuntala Devi and Paritosh Banerji in Bangalore, Karnataka. Paritosh Banerji was an IAS Officer from Kolkata. Shakuntala divorced him in 1979 and settled in Bangalore ...