Let's Fire Up Those Neurons!

That still counts - that's what the exchanges are about!

Yeah, well, me too!
But, such a unique name sticks somewhere in the crevices of the mind you know?
He was quite the polymath!

 

Of course, this one is pretty much done anyway!

 

But I charted off on a course like a rougue planet who escaped from orbital velocity and darted off , does it have anything to do with 'Bharat Matrimony' tricolored home page, the Indian flag, Annie Besant with cropped coiffeur, or the 'Assisted Matrimony', 'Elite Matrimony' — classification, taxonomy , when all the while you were spot on with the clues - 'Born Romantic' (in more than one way) , though why BM and not Uber, BuzzFeed or even IL, see the planet is almost on collision path with nearest andromeda !!!!

 

Posting the next question, Laks, it will be cracked when the dawn breaks at your end for you to post your Q.


What is this place ? Why is it significant?






Clue: Moby Dick

 

More importantly for a general audience, he was the force behind the Indian five-year plans during the years of central planning. It is in this context that he is mentioned in high-school textbooks in India. (By the way, his doctoral degree was in physics, obtained at the Cavendish Lab in Cambridge, where a lot of atomic physics was born, although not Schrödinger's cat !). I did not expect too many people to get the 'distance' clue directly, hence the 'statistically speaking' and 'plan' hints. "India-statistics-plan-distance" -> one of the top hits is P.C. Mahalanobis.

Of course, the fiendishness of the misdirection lay in the photograph itself - at least to my eye, the sepia blue tones and the cosmopolitan, interwar period look (hair slicked back, round frames) did not immediately suggest that he was Indian, he could have been from anywhere!

 

Solved!
Call me Ishmael. And, after wandering for 40 years, I only am escaped to tell thee, but I won't.

 

Yes, I was counting on that! The little leap required was from 'Bharat Matrimony' to 'internet' to 'computer'. I considered 'Shaadi.com' and discarded it, since the '.com' would have been too pregnant a clue!

 

whale - fossil - desert brings up the answer