Sunil Jain, an outstanding journalist and a generous friend

That Sunil Jain was one of India's finest economic writers was evident from his weekly column 'Rational Expectations' in BS and then in the 'Financial Express' where he was the Managing Editor

It was a stressful night at the Express Building at Delhi’s Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg. There was a massive power failure just minutes before the newspaper was supposed to go for printing and some final touches were still left to be done. I, then with the 'Financial Express' (FE) in Delhi (1997), was nervous. In comes Sunil Jain, then the business editor of Indian Express, a sister publication. “Don’t lose hope, yaar. Have you ever seen any newspaper not hitting the stands due to a power failure in office?” he said with a big smile on his face. The tension