With reference to the editorial, “A pointless debate” (August 10), I endorse its observation that there was no need for NITI Aayog Vice-chairman-designate Rajiv Kumar to invoke the phantom of the foreign hand.
Kumar said “the grip of Indian-American economists is fading as part of the ongoing policy transformation in the government” while naming outgoing NITI Aayog vice-chairman Arvind Panagariya and former Reserve Bank of India governor Raghuram Rajan to supplement his ideas.
Kumar places himself in the category of key “home-grown” economists, who better understood “India’s ground realities” than their foreign-educated counterparts. He also warned that the
Kumar said “the grip of Indian-American economists is fading as part of the ongoing policy transformation in the government” while naming outgoing NITI Aayog vice-chairman Arvind Panagariya and former Reserve Bank of India governor Raghuram Rajan to supplement his ideas.
Kumar places himself in the category of key “home-grown” economists, who better understood “India’s ground realities” than their foreign-educated counterparts. He also warned that the
