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Architect of India of Our Times
The New Indian Express
|December 27, 2024
Passes away at 92 following age-related medical issues. Declared dead at 9.51 pm ● Seven-day national mourning expected to be observed ● Last rites will be conducted with full state honours
Economical with his words, but gentle in his phrasing, the conversations he struck up were with the times. And he persuaded the times to change.
That was Dr Manmohan Singh, the self-effacing savant who rose to perform two big roles for an India in transition – that of prime minister and finance minister. In both roles, he is likely to win a contest with history for having been the most clean of spirit and genuinely courteous, the most knowledgeable and, arguably, the most transformational.
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