Naresh Gujral, MP who speaks straight and believes in grace in politics

Over kadhi chawal at home, Gujral tells Rahul Jacob & Archis Mohan that India must make it easier to fire workers and Parliament should pass a bill that ensures it works for 100 days a year

It is a truth widely acknowledged that economic illiteracy and obscurantism have long been helpful qualifications for an Indian politician. Circa 2016-19, the country has also become a hyperkinetic laboratory for eccentric experiments: Shock therapy to leapfrog to a “cashless economy” one moment, a basic income for the bottom 20 per cent of the population with little detail on subsidies to be cut the next.  

As someone who built a successful garment exporting business and is a chartered accountant by training, Naresh Gujral is cut from a different cloth. His conversation is peppered with facts and figures. He makes no