Not just punditry

Most remember Y V Reddy, fondly or otherwise, for what he did with interest rates. But RBI Deputy Governor Rakesh Mohan pointed out various other facets of Reddy’s personality. Reddy, he said, was fond of giving visitors books to read each time they came to his room. But they weren’t all tomes on finance or economics. Long before the movie makers discovered what was later to become Slumdog Millionaire, it was Reddy who gave him Vikas Swarup’s Q&A to read; indeed, long before the glam-set began talking of Adiga, it was Reddy who gave him White Tiger to read. Truly a Reddy-Reckoner, going by Mohan’s spiel.