India.

Then he was invited by Delhi school of economics –by Amartya Sen- to join Chinese studies as a Chair Professor. But when they at DSE learnt about his free market thinking and views on nuclear energy—changed their mind. They offered him a Readers job when he was already a Professor at Harvard which he rejected.

He joined IIT Delhi in 1969 from where he was expelled in 1972 by the then government for his anti-communist views. He wanted five year plans to be scrapped and argued in the seventies that India can grow at 10%. That was really far sighted since today everyone is talking the same.

In 1970 Indira Gandhi “dismissed” his economic views as that of a “Santa Claus with unrealistic ideas”The same views were to be implementedby Dr.Manmohan Singh as Finance Minister in 1992 under PVN Rao as PM. That is the irony of our politics and shows he was far ahead of his time.

After his expulsion from IIT Delhi he fought a court case and got re-instated in 1991. He joined for a day to prove his point before resigning.

He was invited by Nanaji Deshmukh the doyen of Indian politics to join Rajya Sabha in 1974. That changed his professorial life to that of a political leader.

When emergency was declared in 1975 he went underground –travelled extensively in USA to expose emergency. He made a dramatic appearance in Parliament—10th August 1976- to “condole the demise of democracy” and wanted obituary reference on the same. He immediately left the Parliament and disappeared. That electrified