Tomorrow is my last day in office as the Chief Economic Adviser (CEA) to the Government of India, a job of enormous responsibility, opportunity, excitement and of course, prestige. I must not indulge in reflection that risks turning sentimental. I should probably follow T S Eliot in “Little Gidding”:
“I am not eager to rehearse
My thoughts and theory which you have forgotten.
These things have served their purpose: let them be.”
But I am not detached enough to do so. And the truth is that this is too poignant and fraught a moment — leaving the best job I have ever
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