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Ashok V Desai

Delhi
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Extinguished economist and aspiring wordsmith. Worked in six countries, visited sixty - the most beautiful being Norway and New Zealand.
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IG Patel: Centenary Remembrance

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By Ashok V Desai
| The India Forum
The 11th of November was the birth centenary of Indraprasad Gordhanbhai Patel, better known as I.G. Patel. IG was born in Baroda, a princely state. It was then ruled by Sayajirao Gaekwad III, who took the throne in 1877 at the age of 14 and reigned for 62 years. Baroda was relatively peaceful, and IG could pursue his studies undisturbed. He and Mahendra, my brother, were virtually the same age, and appeared for the Matriculation examination of Bombay University in the same year.
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A Life-Long Bureaucrat Original

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By Ashok V Desai
| India Today Verified
The theatre is closed thanks to the pandemic; so, backstage workers are coming out to perform. We have just had the memoirs of Montek Singh and his wife; now comes NK. In the short while we coincided in the finance ministry, I never heard anyone call NK anything else. Now I learn that Pranab Mukherjee, who became minister many times, president once, and missed being prime minister at least once, called him Nandu.
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Urjit Patel virtual dismissal and Viral Acharya resignation from the Reserve Bank of India

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By Ashok V Desai
| The Telegraph (India) Verified
| | Published 01.09.20, 12:11 AM Urjit Patel’s virtual dismissal and Viral Acharya’s resignation from the Reserve Bank of India are old news. Its capture by the Delhi government is extreme even by Indian standards; but no word of explanation came from North Block. Now, both have given their own accounts. Of the two, Patel’s Overdraft is more scholarly and impenetrable. Let me try and explain what it says.
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