There are seven of them. Seven finance ministers, comprising a financial band of illustrious men and women (India had the first independent female FM in 2019), and who changed the course of India’s economy. Between 1991 and 2021, through policy vehicles, which included 31 main budgets and some interim budgets, he defined and refined, conceived and re-imagined, discussed and debated how the invisible hand of the market could produce clear results. Is.
He was both idealistic and practical. He was a social philosopher and an economic scientist who were merged into one. They were motivated not by what was, but by what could be, as well as by electoral realities. He led the country by taking sharp and blind right turns, and occasionally lost his way and took random left cuts. They went ahead with their ideas on a few occasions, and were forced to withdraw at some crossroads. These FMs married market chants with socialist slogans.
Basically, he changed us and our society. Three or four generations wide, far-reaching and…
.