Adios, Y Venu Reddy

Combining academic rigour with bureaucratic activism, Y V Reddy in his long years as a policy-maker won over a sceptical market. Haseeb A Drabu bids him farewell

Few bureaucrats have played a role in economic policy making in India. Fewer still have made original contributions. Only a handful have changed the course of economic policy and steered it in a new direction. Y V Reddy did all three. And did so when it mattered most: in the 1990s when the entire economic regime was changed. Never mind that he never figured in the high profile