Dr Singh's other major reform lies in India's strategic shift to the West

It was also audacious, in my book even more so than the 1991 reform, given how little support it had within the Congress and the UPA

Millions of words are being written and spoken about Dr Manmohan Singh in these couple of days, most of these will focus on the reforms he introduced in 1991. We can understand how his life is often seen monochromatically by his admirers — including those who don’t vote for the Congress and probably never have.

 

That’s very unkind to him in many ways. One, it limits him and his legacy to something he had done almost a decade and a half before he became the Prime Minister of India.

 

Second, it gives him sole credit for the reform, even though