
He is close to the best economists of our times and writes regularly for times of India editorial and various other national and international newspapers.
His most famous book “ India Unbound “ is an autobiographical journey to partition of India ,when his family had to shift from Pakistan to Punjab, construction of big dams where his father was involved as a civil engineer, his journey to US and then Harvard where he studied economics and philosophy, setting up of Richardson Hindustan office in India and establishing it ( Vick’s Vaporub ) which later got sold to P & G where he was a CEO and quit at 50 to write books !
This is parallelled with Indian general elections, Five year plans, Nehru's socialism, china’s ascent with Russian help, Indira’s anti capitalism and emergency, Licence permit raj, 97 % corporate tax , PVN Rao and Manmohan Singh’s liberalisation policies and entry to new millennium with renewed hopes of a new vibrant India with onset of software services, Indian multinationals etc
This is a must book for students and practitioners of economics, politics, History, Journalists, engineers and scientists etc
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