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Babus are hugely upset, understandably so, at the less than laudatory media coverage of Shaktikanta Das, an IAS officer of the Tamil Nadu cadre who had retired as secretary, economic affairs, in the finance ministry and was appointed the 25th governor of the Reserve Bank of India last week. The first two governors of the […]
Read More Das – the new Raja of Mint StreetRajan the thinking central banker: photo credit: bloomberg.com Raghuram Rajan, India’s central banking czar, will be history by September 2016. He enjoys unprecedented popularity and near cult status as Governor of the Reserve Bank of India. Some of this has to do with his youthful looks and fresh demeanor — unusual in a profession peopled […]
Read More Rexit technical brilliance, enter political economy expertiseYes, it’s true. Raghuram Rajan is very Un-Indian on multiple counts. Photocredit: live.av.info Raghuram Rajan a youthful financial messiah amidst grey heads Early start First, like Dr. Manmohan Singh before him and unlike every other Governor of the Reserve Bank, Rajan became governor at the “tender”, almost youthful age -by Indian metrics- of just fifty […]
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