Lunch with Business Standard: Arvind Panagariya
(Business Standard, 31 Jul 2013)
The slowdown is a short-term blip, says this well-known economist in contrast to the many gloom and doom predictions. Myth-buster par excellence, contrarian and reformist, and irrepressible optimist — Arvind Panagariya is a bit of all three. On a bright summer afternoon, he cuts through the gloom of Lutyens’ Delhi: the slowdown is temporary, reform is irreversible. India’s long-term destiny is unchanged, he tells Mihir S Sharma.