Economist who could talk to the layman

 Professor Syed Ali Mohammed Khusro Husaini died on 24 August 2003. The various appointments he held spanned a remarkable range: he taught economics at Osmania and other universities and he conducted and supervised research at the Institute of Economic Growth in Delhi,which he also headed for many years.

 He was Vice Chancellor of the Aligarh Muslim University and India's ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany; he was a member of the Planning Commission andlater headed the Agha Khan Foundation's office in India; and he was Chairman of the Eleventh Finance Commission.

 In recent years he did a great deal of work in the voluntary sector. Even this list is by no means exhaustive.As an economist, Khusro Sahab will be remembered chiefly for his work on different aspects of agriculture such as land reforms and the question of buffer stocks; although he also wrote on banking and even did a study of students of Delhi University.

 His work in monetary economics, which he did not keep up for long, in certain ways anticipated Milton Friedman