Montek Singh Ahluwalia takes on the epic question: has India missed the bus?
Long before RBI governors and chief economic advisors became rockstars, there was the original.
Montek Singh Ahluwalia.
The visible face of a hitherto invisible domain.
But then Montek is – and never was – just an economist. As deputy chairman of the planning commission – a position that carried cabinet rank – and previously, in a widely lauded stint at the International Monetary Fund, he became an oxymoron, a civil servant with a firm, committed public position, rather than a fluid one.
In the three decades since, he went on to shape the Contemporary Indian economic landscape as few men have, and in this straight-talking session, he took on questions about past and future, and about new ideas to solve India’s most complex economic challenges.
From the most challenging issues of the economy to the future of jobs, and the ground reality outside of hyperbole and hubris, this is an engaging, revealing conversation with a man who knows the Indian economy inside out.
Watch the full session above.
