Raghuram Rajan took office as the 23rd Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on 4 September. He gave a good inaugural speech. It was purposeful. It had the stamp of authority. It had vision and audacity. It revealed a man who knew his mind, who had done his homework and who was prepared to lead from the front.

All of these have been absent in our political leadership over the last decade. Hence, most of us went ecstatic on reading that speech or on hearing him. Read More

Jyothi Shankaran

    Jyothi’s last role was as Senior Editor with the business news channel Bloomberg TV India. He also worked as News Editor at business-standard.com, the online version of the business newspaper Business Standard. Jyothi is a chemical engineer from the Regional Engineering College, Srinagar.