'I had to persuade him. I think he was a sceptic to begin with, but later on he was convinced that what we were doing was the right thing to do, that there was no other way out.' A revealing......
It is thanks to the policy of liberalisation conceived by Manmohan Singh and enforced by P V Narasimha Rao that the Indian economy has now become the world's 5th largest economy by nominal GDP,......
Former Prime Minister P V Narasimha Rao was a rare scholar and statesman who gave a new sense of direction to the country's economic and foreign policies, former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said......
'He told senior journalists a few days after the Babri Masjid demolition, 'Jo hua theek hua. Maine isliye hone diya ki BJP ki rajniti hamesha ke liye khatam ho jaye.' IMAGE: Then prime minister P......
There is, between Rao's tenure as PM and the current Modi regime, a powerful resonance of how transition can be managed.Rao's tenure saw many scams -- one where he was supposedly approached by......
'Those who are talking of adopting the Narasimha Rao-Manmohan Singh policy must understand now that what was a reform then is no longer a reform now,' argues Sukumar Mukhopadhyay who was associated......
Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was a brilliant economist with a visionary outlook on India's potential, combined with a fine sense of political feasibility, former RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan......
Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's 1991 Budget unshackled India's economy, significantly enhancing the economic prospects for hundreds of millions of Indians, first deputy managing director of......
'Here was a man (Rao) with no charisma. His party hated him. He ran a minority government in Parliament. For a man like that, to bring about the kind of transformation he did, there is no parallel......
In the last five years, somewhere in the haze of India's rapid economic growth and the glowing corporate performance, the spotlight turned away from one man who years ago had changed the way......
Say hello to the cast of The Accidental Prime Minister. The key players in the The Accidental Prime Minister have been unveiled. Anupam Kher, who plays Dr Manmohan Singh, looks almost......
'Whenever you see him on television or anywhere else, he gives off grandfatherly vibes.' IMAGE: Akshaye Khanna plays Sanjaya Baru in The Accidental Prime Minister, a film based on Dr Baru's......
'People have a certain perception about my political leanings -- and rightly so.''But I am an actor first, and then an activist.''And I am not an accidental actor.''There was no way I was going to......
'If the country's biggest sports award is named after him, the National Stadium is named after him, then why not he is given a Bharat Ratna.' IMAGE: Union Sports Minister Mansukh Mandaviya pays......