Every time you talk or write about Dr Swamy –you find that there are so many areas you have not covered about him. He has been a Teacher, economist, mathematician, politician, rebel, crusader against black money, appreciated by Chinese/Israel and US leaders/ dog lover and looked at with awe and worry by his opponents.

When I joined Indian Statistical Institute [ISI] in the early seventies and came to know that Dr Swamy was an Alumnus my interest in him started. After his studies at The Hindu College where he was 3rd rank in the university he joined Indian Statistical Institute. I came to know that he was not afraid to criticise Mahalonobis the founder of ISI–about one of his papers.

It is to be remembered that Mahalanobis was the brainwhen he was 24. That was really a record. By 27 he was teaching at Harvard.

He co-authored a paper in 1974 on the theory of Index numbers with Dr Samuelson—the first American to get Nobel award in Economics- and it was a pioneering effort.

He then in 1975, wrote a book titled “Economic Growth in China and India, 1952–70: A Comparative Appraisal” which is considered as the most authoritative work on the subject. When someone challenged him to learn Mandarin –the tough language-in one year he learnt in 3 months. Till this day, Swamy is considered an authority on the Chinese Economy.

He met his future wife a Parsi woman –Ms.Roxana –at Harvard where she was doing her mathematics research. Later she studied law to practice in Supreme Court of