July 1, 2016 marked the 25th year of the historic devaluation of the Rupee that set in motion the irreversibile process pf opening the Indian economy. The Indian Express speaks to those who unclocked the power of change to ask what then -- and what now.
A look at the front page of the Indian Express on July 2, 1991, announcing the devaluation.
Reflecting on the reforms that he, working with Prime Minister P V Narasimha Rao, set in motion, Singh opened up to The Indian Express, in a rare conversation earlier this year, as he mapped the road ahead: opposition from within, role of the Prime Minister’s “political management,” fear of “blood and tears,” and the crying “need to revisit old orthodoxies.”
READ Excerpts of Manmohan Singh's full interview here