Manmohan Singh’s success lay in making a decisive and historic shift towards the West. It was also audacious, in my book even more so than the 1991 reform, given how little support it had within Congress and UPA.
Appointed as finance minister under prime minister PV Narasimha Rao, Singh enacted slew of reforms that broke shackles of overregulation & protectionism.
The late former PM was among the Modi regime's sharpest critics. And though he did not make too many interventions, the few times he did speak up, he packed quite a punch.
BRICS, India-US civil nuclear deal, Quad, Pakistan, SCO, were all part of late former PM's foreign engagements, which set India on path of 'multi-vector' diplomacy, to quote Jaishankar.
Singh often quoted a 19th century German statesman, saying: ‘Politics is the art of the possible.’ He believed designing reforms might be a science, but executing them was an art.
According to Congress sources, Singh’s daughter will arrive after midnight on Friday, & that the ‘last darshan’ would be scheduled for Saturday between 8:00 and 10:00 am.
Singh’s outlook on economic & political matters was often at odds with Congress. There were instances when he initially found himself isolated, only for the party to fall in line later.
India’s 14th Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh passed away at AIIMS, Delhi, Thursday at age 92. During his tenure, India emerged as one of the world’s fastest-growing economies.
The massive success of the IPL is a watershed moment in Indian sports. It proved that sports could be an incredibly profitable commercial venture. The glamour, the glitz, and the spectacle of it didn’t go unnoticed.
New CPI series will take 2024 as base year, will provide more accurate measure of inflation, spending on digital services. Expected to enhance representation and reliability, says Saurabh Garg.
The agreement, signed after meeting between Rajnath and US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on sidelines of ADMM-Plus in Kuala Lumpur, aims to deepen bilateral ties in the critical sector.
This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.
A fine tradition, also followed in the United States, for a press contingent to travel with the head of government. Especially on overseas trips. To interact informally and on record with him and also senior officials. Acknowledging that in a democracy, the media, acting on behalf of citizens, has a right to know what the government is doing, and why.
Manmohan Singh was a Gandhi Toady working on the whims and fancy of Sonia Gandhi. Further the real credit for economic reforms go to Narasimha Rao who brought true economic liberalization to India
A fine tradition, also followed in the United States, for a press contingent to travel with the head of government. Especially on overseas trips. To interact informally and on record with him and also senior officials. Acknowledging that in a democracy, the media, acting on behalf of citizens, has a right to know what the government is doing, and why.
Manmohan Singh was a Gandhi Toady working on the whims and fancy of Sonia Gandhi. Further the real credit for economic reforms go to Narasimha Rao who brought true economic liberalization to India