Singh was known as the father of economic reforms in India. He served as finance minister in the early 1990s, and his policies then set India on the path of economic liberalization and globalization.
A practising (albeit secular) Sikh and India’s first non-Hindu prime minister, Singh was known for his Cambridge blue turbans, his probity and his modest and self-deprecating simplicity.
It’s no coincidence that Singh found his guru in Little. Little had played a key role in India’s policy making. A lesser-known fact about the “commanding heights” of India’s socialist-era ...