February 2025

The Wire: "The Education of Manmohan Singh" by David Engerman

As accolades for Manmohan Singh pour in after his death on December 26, it is worth considering the experiences that prepared him for his star turn as finance minister in 1991 and his back-to-back terms as prime minister, 2004-2014. After all, he himself had reminded us of his past in his everyday appearance; he usually sported a turban of Cambridge blue, which served as a reminder of his intellectual roots.