Economists generally and Indian academic economists particularly don’t write their autobiographies. Padma Desai’s autobiography is the only one I can think of amongst the latter. Pranab Bardhan also wrote one, in a manner of speaking. It is a pdf file all of five pages long!
But that is all. None of the others — P C Mahalanobis, Amartya Sen, Sukhamoy Chakravarty, Avinash Dixit etc — have written about themselves. Even the two prolific Desais — Meghnad and Ashok — have kept mum.
Economic administrators like I G Patel, Ashok Mitra, Y V Reddy etc have taken the plunge. But even they have
