Dr Singh as prime minister became a torchbearer of reforms and one of the greatest global ambassadors of the country, helping us attract much-needed foreign capital and investment, and helping us reduce the severe inequities the country was hindered by. Image: Harish Tyagi/Pool/AFP
I was felicitated by Dr Manmohan Singh with a gold medal when I graduated with a master’s in economics from Delhi School of Economics. Now when I look back, it is not the thrill of the medal, but the personality of the soft spoken, distinguished leader and eminent economist who felicitated me that excites me.
Singh was the then-finance minister who had just initiated India’s reform journey with the famed budget of July 1991. He was being lauded and celebrated by all for opening up of the Indian economy. However, what strikes me in hindsight is that, on that day, he did not…
