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[Saif]

Hindi imposed everywhere, alleges Tamil Nadu CM

India state of Tamil Nadu chief minister MK Stalin has posed a series of questions to governor RN Ravi regarding a missing line from Tamil Nadu’s state anthem during...

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Hindi imposed everywhere, alleges Tamil Nadu CM
Staff Correspondent 20 October, 2024, 01:39

India state of Tamil Nadu chief minister MK Stalin has posed a series of questions to governor RN Ravi regarding a missing line from Tamil Nadu’s state anthem during its rendition in an event, indicating the verbal fight between the two is far from over.

He also criticised the governor for ‘vilifying the Dravidian race’ and trying to ‘impose Hindi everywhere’.

The latest flashpoint was triggered after a line with the word ‘Dravida’ was skipped by singers during the event presided over by the Tamil Nadu Governor on Friday.

‘Why didn’t you correct the omission right away?’ Mr Stalin posted on X, accusing Mr Ravi of skipping mentioning the ‘Dravidian model in the past’.

‘When this is your history, how will Tamils believe this omission was inadvertent?’ he posted.

The sentence ‘Thekkanamum adhil sirantha Dravida nal thiru naadum’ was missing when the singers sang the anthem during the Doordarshan Kendra Chennai’s Hindi month valedictory function. Doordarshan Tamil apologised for the ‘inadvertent mistake’, and said singers had no intention to disrespect Tamil or Tamizh Thaai Valthu, the state song.

MK Stalin took strong exception to the omission and accused the governor of insulting the unity of the country and the people of different races living in the land, under the guise of observing Hindi month. He said that a person who doesn’t abide by the law and acts as per his wishes was not fit to hold that office and wondered if Ravi was a governor or an ‘Aryan’.

Ravi, on his part, accused the chief minister of making a racist remark against him. He said the allegation against him was ‘unfortunately cheap and lowers the dignity of the high constitutional office of the Chief Minister.’ His response, however, was silent on the skipped line by the singers.

‘You have said ‘It is unfortunately cheap for a Chief Minister to make racist comments against a Governor with false allegations’.

Governor, Tamil is our race! It is our lifeblood! Tamils are the ones who gave their lives to save the Tamil language. It is the soil that laid the foundations of the First Constitutional Amendment and bears the history of the Indian anti-imposition struggle. If you call ou r love for Tamil racist, it’s an honour for us,’ MK Stalin hit back.

He also accused the Centre and the governor appointed by it of trying to impose ‘Hindi with the policy of ‘Hindi everywhere - Hindi in anything’ by prime minister Modi’s schemes and slogans’.

‘What kind of political civilization is it to forget the constitutional norms and talk about politics every day, and to turn the Governor’s House into a political office - and to vilify the Dravidian race? What kind of culture?’ he wrote.

Mr Ravi had said that he recites full Tamizh Thaai Vaazhthu at every function and he does so with ‘reverence, pride and precision’. Under the leadership of Hon’ble Prime Minister Thiru Narendra Modi, the Central government has proudly created several institutions for spread of Tamil language and heritage within India including Tamil Nadu and several countries of the world. PM Modi took Tamil even to the United Nations,’ he said on X.

The Chief Minister had earlier said the Governor should step down as he had failed to speak for Tamil pride.

‘If you intend to continue as governor, I request you to free yourself from divisive forces and discharge your duties according to constitutional norms,’ MK Stalin said.

The face-off began after MK Stalin wrote a letter to prime minister Narendra Modi emphasising that the Indian Constitution does not grant national language status to any language, and Hindi and English are only for official purposes. He suggested avoiding the Hindi language month celebration in non-Hindi-speaking states.

He also condemned the celebration of Hindi Month valedictory function along with the Golden Jubilee celebrations of Chennai Doordarshan. In response, Governor RN Ravi said that Hindi should not be viewed as an imposition but as a language to be celebrated alongside other languages.

The Doordarshan event marked the beginning of the golden jubilee celebrations of Doordarshan Chennai, which commenced operations in 1975.​

 

[Saif]

New Delhi’s air pollution worsens

The air quality in Delhi has further deteriorated in the national capital yesterday, with the Air Quality Index (AQI) being recorded at 352, in the ‘very poor’ category, according to System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting And Research (SAFAR).

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New Delhi’s air pollution worsens
Residents complain of breathing difficulties

The air quality in Delhi has further deteriorated in the national capital yesterday, with the Air Quality Index (AQI) being recorded at 352, in the 'very poor' category, according to System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting And Research (SAFAR).

AQI in areas such as Anand Vihar crossed the 400 mark, being recorded as 405 at 7:00 am, categorized as "severe", worse than the AQI of 367 recorded on Saturday.

This forecast is significantly worse than the average AQI recorded at 255 on Saturday, categorized as "poor". AQI at the Akshardham Temple deteriorated 261, whereas IGI airport recorded an AQI of 324, both categorized as "very poor." The city has been covered by a layer of smog, which is most prominent early in the morning. In conversation with news agency ANI, Himanshu who is visiting Delhi, said the rising pollution feels "suffocating".​

 

[Saif]

Gautam Adani charged in US over massive bribery scheme

Billionaire Indian industrialist Gautam Adani has been charged with paying hundreds of millions of dollars of bribes and hiding the payments from investors, US prosecutors said yesterday

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Gautam Adani charged in US over massive bribery scheme

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Billionaire Indian industrialist Gautam Adani has been charged with paying hundreds of millions of dollars of bribes and hiding the payments from investors, US prosecutors said yesterday.

With a business empire spanning coal, airports, cement and media, the chairman of Adani Group has been rocked in recent years by corporate fraud allegations and a stock crash.

The close acolyte of Hindu nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a fellow Gujarat native, is alleged to have agreed to pay more than $250 million in bribes to Indian officials for lucrative solar energy supply contracts.

The deals were projected to generate more than $2 billion in profits after tax, over roughly 20 years.

None of the multiple defendants in the case, including Adani, are in custody, the prosecutor's office told AFP.

Prosecutors say one of Adani's alleged accomplices meticulously tracked bribe payments, using his phone to log the bungs offered to officials.

"This indictment alleges schemes to pay over $250 million in bribes to Indian government officials, to lie to investors and banks to raise billions of dollars, and to obstruct justice," said Deputy Assistant Attorney General Lisa Miller.

"Gautam Adani and seven other business executives allegedly bribed the Indian government to finance lucrative contracts designed to benefit their businesses... while still other defendants allegedly attempted to conceal the bribery conspiracy by obstructing the government's investigation," said the FBI's James Dennehy.

A self-described introvert, Adani keeps a low profile and rarely speaks to the media, often sending lieutenants to front corporate events.

Adani was born in Ahmedabad, Gujarat state, to a middle-class family but dropped out of school at 16 and moved to financial capital Mumbai to find work in the city's lucrative gem trade.

After a short stint in his brother's plastics business, he launched the flagship family conglomerate that bears his name in 1988 by branching out into the export trade.

His big break came seven years later with a contract to build and operate a commercial shipping port in Gujarat.

Adani Group's rapid expansion into capital-intensive businesses previously raised alarms, with Fitch subsidiary and market researcher CreditSights warning in 2022 it was "deeply over-leveraged."

In 2023 a bombshell report from US investment firm Hindenburg Research claimed the conglomerate had engaged in a "brazen stock manipulation and accounting fraud scheme over the course of decades."

Hindenburg said a pattern of "government leniency towards the group" stretching back decades had left investors, journalists, citizens and politicians unwilling to challenge its conduct "for fear of reprisal."​

 

[Lulldapull]

Chicano weeds out illegal Indian migrants quickly now. The Hillbilly have told Mehico to stop this nonsense of illegal collud gypsy barging in via da southern border, claiming to be Chicano......lol

They're catching and deporting Indians now by the thousands:

 

[Bilal9]

India’s Modi claims he has been chosen by God

Indian prime minister Narendra Modi has said he believes he has been chosen by God, as the multi-stage Indian election nears its completion, reports The Guardian...

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India's Modi claims he has been chosen by God
New Age Desk 27 May, 2024, 21:00

Indian prime minister Narendra Modi has said he believes he has been chosen by God, as the multi-stage Indian election nears its completion, reports The Guardian.

'I am convinced that 'Parmatma' (God) sent me for a purpose. Once the purpose is achieved, my work will be one done. This is why I have completely dedicated myself to God,' he told NDTV news channel on Sunday.

Modi, who is hoping to win a third term when the results of the general election are announced on 4 June, said that while God guided him to do a lot of his work, he did so without revealing a larger scheme.

'He does not reveal his cards, just keeps making me do things. And I cannot dial him directly to ask what's next,' he said.

Modi has built up a well-established cult of personality within his Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, with many supporters unable to name other cabinet members or their local BJP candidate.

The BJP has also actively promoted Hinduism, the majority faith, in every aspect of public life. At the inauguration of the temple in Ayodhya in January, it was Modi, rather than Hindu priests, who played the leading role in the rituals.

Nonetheless, this is believed to be the first time that Modi, who rarely gives interviews and has held no press conferences in his ten years in power, has spoken about himself so candidly as a divine instrument.

'The wily weaving of religion with politics for a country where faith is an inextricable part of everyday life is the BJP's unique selling point. Modi's claim is the logical culmination of the BJP's dominant theme,' the Indian newspaper The Telegraph wrote in an editorial.

Earlier this month, in a television interview in Varanasi, his constituency, Modi made another allusion to divinity. 'When my mother was alive, I used to believe that I was born biologically. After she passed away, upon reflecting on all my experiences, I was convinced that God had sent me,' he said.

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[Sharma Ji]

The god thing is old news by now, and honestly, certainly not as controversial as some are making it out to be, spl not around these here subcontinent parts.. come on !

and that bald vid been posted here earlier too, I'm quite sure.

@Bilal9

 

[Bilal9]

The god thing is old news by now, and honestly, certainly not as controversial as some are making it out to be, spl not around these here subcontinent parts.. come on !

and that bald vid been posted here earlier too, I'm quite sure.

@Bilal9

Why are you complaining? Or trying to muzzle content? There is nothing offensive in these posts.

These are fascinating facets about Indian culture that all should know. All part of our desi culture and traditions.

Please let me know what is offensive in these posts and I will take care of it.

 

[Sharma Ji]

Why are you complaining? Or trying to muzzle content? There is nothing offensive in these posts.

These are fascinating facets about Indian culture that all should know. All part of our desi culture and traditions.

Please let me know what is offensive in these posts and I will take care of it.

lol very little offends me, and certainly not stuff like this.

My point was exactly that, that it is old news.

About the bald vid, I made a whole thread about it, and included other travel tubers' reaction vids on it. Not offended there either, theek bola.. India is, large swathes anyway, a total dump.. but as above, so below wala scene, man.

Anyway, as a recon Indian now having made an ingresses into this thread and scoped it out.. I shall now call for backup, arty fire support and strafing gun runs on your posts

@Krishna with Flute @Guru Dutt @Vsdoc

 

[Sharma Ji]

The best travel pisstake on India was by that American guy who lives in Japan .. small brained American, he funny as hell, and was traveling with bald and backpacker Ben.

you seen his xhit @Lulldapull ?

 

[Bilal9]

lol very little offends me, and certainly not stuff like this.

My point was exactly that, that it is old news.

About the bald vid, I made a whole thread about it, and included other travel tubers' reaction vids on it. Not offended there either, theek bola.. India is, large swathes anyway, a total dump.. but as above, so below wala scene, man.

Anyway, as a recon Indian now having made an ingresses into this thread and scoped it out.. I shall now call for backup, arty fire support and strafing gun runs on your posts

@Krishna with Flute @Guru Dutt @Vsdoc

Any criticisms are more than welcome. No offensive languages, slurs or name-calling - those will be deleted as you know. And points deducted.

I told @Krishna with Flute in another post that I am willing to discuss Ramayana, the Vedas, Bhajrayana Buddhism, the whole gamut. Bring it on.

This forum should be a place to gather knowledge, not for just gup shup, We have the whatever thread for that.

 

[Bilal9]

lol very little offends me, and certainly not stuff like this.

My point was exactly that, that it is old news.

About the bald vid, I made a whole thread about it, and included other travel tubers' reaction vids on it. Not offended there either, theek bola.. India is, large swathes anyway, a total dump.. but as above, so below wala scene, man.

Anyway, as a recon Indian now having made an ingresses into this thread and scoped it out.. I shall now call for backup, arty fire support and strafing gun runs on your posts

@Krishna with Flute @Guru Dutt @Vsdoc

Please do not call India a "total dump". It is a varied landscape. It is what it is.

I have been to Navi Mumbai, Bangalore and Gurgaon, I have also been to Dharavi.

Mehnati folks trying to eke out a living in the less fortunate parts, and not entirely because of their own fault.

It is the govts. responsibility to give them subsistence jobs, and they failed.

There are 26 lakh Indians (most of then illegal) working in garments factories in Bangladesh.

No one is asking them to leave. Kahan jaiga ye sub log?

 

[Lulldapull]

The best travel pisstake on India was by that American guy who lives in Japan .. small brained American, he funny as hell, and was traveling with bald and backpacker Ben.

you seen his xhit @Lulldapull ?

Man anybody colored putting down the subcontinent and its culture, whatever it is, is just hurting himself. Trump ka ulla coming online soon and he's just goin fukkin make life hard for the colored people living out west.

Our community needs to get a reality check, and whoever so gotta leave, should leave ASAP, specially if they've got immigration or naturalization dramay goin on.

I'm warning everybody here. Trump will bring in his neo-nazis into the foray and there will be no mercy over the next 4 years for the colored migrants. And the EU toady will follow suit.

It is what it is, whether yous muzlim or not.........if yous colored bhai, good luck.

 

[Sharma Ji]

Man anybody colored putting down the subcontinent and its culture, whatever it is, is just hurting himself. Trump ka ulla coming online soon and he's just goin fukkin make life hard for the colored people living out west.

Our community needs to get a reality check, and whoever so gotta leave, should leave ASAP, specially if they've got immigration or naturalization dramay goin on.

I'm warning everybody here. Trump will bring in his neo-nazis into the foray and there will be no mercy over the next 4 years for the colored migrants. And the EU toady will follow suit.

It is what it is, whether yous muzlim or not.........if yous colored bhai, good luck.

Dekho, hum toh desi hai.. Trump shump se koi lena dena nahi much, as such.

btw, un angrejon ne theek bola, jab hai gandgi apne deshon me, to hai..

My great hope is that being shamed for it may trigger some to actually bother about it and not trash it. Basic civic duty, don't throw your mess and make it a slum.. I comply and do not throw kachra everywhere.

 

[Vsdoc]

Moderator Warning: White trash or other offensive content will not be allowed.

All offensive posts will be deleted. And if reinstated, as has happened, deleted once more.

Kindly take a deep breath and post sensibly.

 

[Krishna with Flute]

Nepal map on currency note stirs up border row with India
10 May 2024, 12:00 am
AFP :

The boundary dispute between India and Nepal has heated up once again after the Nepali government last week announced a new currency note featuring a map that shows three border areas claimed by New Delhi.

The dispute involves the territories of Kalapani, Lipulekh and Limpiyadhura, which are currently under Indian control.

The new map adds 335 square kilometres of land to Nepal, and the country's central bank is expected to take up to a year to print and issue the new note.

India's Foreign Minister S Jaishankar slammed Nepal's decision, saying it will not change the reality on the ground.

"Our position is very clear. With Nepal, we are having discussions about our boundary matters through an established platform. In the middle of that, they unilaterally took some measures on their side," Jaishankar told media persons.

"But by doing something on their side, they are not going to change the situation between us or the reality on the ground," he added. The boundary dispute between the two countries began to escalate after New Delhi issued a political map in November 2019 that placed the contested area within India's territory.

Relations became more strained when India inaugurated an 80-kilometer-long roadway that passes through Lipulekh, a disputed area that lies at the strategic Nepal-India-China tri-junction.

The unilaterally built motorway links India's Uttarakhand state to Tibet's Kailash Mansarovar via the Lipulekh Pass, a territory historically claimed by Nepal and considered one of the shortest and most practicable trade routes between India and China.

The small Himalayan nation challenged India's inauguration of the road by publishing a new map showing the contested areas – including the areas of Kalapani, Lipulekh and Limpiyadhura – as lying inside Nepal's borders.

Nepal, which was never under colonial rule, has long claimed these areas in accordance with the 1816 Sugauli treaty with the British Raj following the Anglo-Nepalese (Gurkha) War.

The treaty recognized the Kali River as Nepal's western boundary with India and the land lying east of the river is Nepalese territory. However, these areas have been under India's administrative control since the early 1960s.​

Nepal and India are brothers. This is a fight in family. When you have so much love for each other, no problem is difficult to resolve.

 

[Krishna with Flute]

We have a moderately good relationship with some ups and downs. The main reason why it did not turn into all whether friendship is those radical Ayatollahs who are dysfunctional. They have a narrow and short vision of any relations, and they do some cheap gimmick in between. Not only they have not very good relations with India but they do not have very good relations with any neighbors. Our Pakistani friends here were hyping Iran and their mediocre missiles here and meanwhile Iran Bombed Pakistan.

MSN

 

[Saif]

We have a moderately good relationship

That's why you are illegally occupying Kala-pani of Nepal.

 

[Krishna with Flute]

That's why you are illegally occupying Kala-pani of Nepal.

Bad Mix up. While I am talking about India Iran Relationship, you quote me and posts the issue with Nepal.

 

[Saif]

Manmohan Singh passes away at 92

Former Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh, the architect of India's economic reforms, passed away in New Delhi last night. He was 92.

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Manmohan Singh passes away at 92

Former Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. File photo

Manmohan Singh, the former Indian prime minister whose economic reforms made his country a global powerhouse, has passed away in New Delhi last night. He was 92.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi confirmed Singh's death, posting on X that India "mourns the loss of one of its most distinguished leaders."

Singh was taken to a hospital in New Delhi after he lost consciousness at his home yesterday evening, but could not be resuscitated and was pronounced dead at 9:51pm local time, according to a statement by the All India Institute of Medical Sciences.

Singh, who was twice prime minister in the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance government from 2004 to 2014, has been in indifferent health for the last few months.

Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and her mother Sonia Gandhi reached the hospital soon after the news of Singh's hospitalisation broke.

Singh, who was the finance minister under the then prime minister PV Narasimha Rao, was the architect and the brainchild of economic reforms in 1991 that pulled India from the brink of bankruptcy and ushered in an era of economic liberalisation that is widely believed to have changed the course of India's economic trajectory.

Singh is credited with having overseen an economic boom in Asia's fourth-largest economy in his first term, although slowing growth in later years marred his second stint.

Born in 1932 in the mud-house village of Gah in what is now Pakistan, Singh studied economics to find a way to eradicate poverty in the vast nation and never held elected office before taking the nation's highest office.

His life was a testament to service, scholarship and leadership.

He earned a Master's degree in Economics from Panjab University, Chandigarh, and obtained a doctorate from the University of Oxford.

Singh's village, where he was born, lacked a school, healthcare, and electricity, forcing him to walk miles to an Urdu-medium school and study by kerosene lamp at night.

He attributed his rise to the "system of scholarships" for poor students that existed at the time.

Singh worked in a string of senior civil posts, served as a central bank governor and also held various jobs with global agencies such as the United Nations.

Amid one of the worst financial crisis in India's modern history, Congress PM Narasimha Rao appointed his as finance minister to pull the country back from the brink. And he did exactly that.

Later, in his first term as PM, Singh steered the economy through a period of nine-percent growth, lending the country the international clout it had long sought.

He also sealed a landmark nuclear deal with the US that he said would help India meet its growing energy needs.

Known as "Mr Clean", Singh nonetheless saw his image tarnished during his decade-long tenure when a series of corruption cases became public.

Several months before the 2014 elections, Singh said he would retire after the polls, with Sonia Gandhi's son Rahul earmarked to take his place if Congress won.

But Congress crashed to its worst-ever result at that time as the Bharatiya Janata Party, led by Modi, won a landslide.

Singh -- who said historians would be kinder to him than contemporary detractors -- became a vocal critic of Modi's economic policies, and more recently warned about the risks that rising communal tensions posed to India's democracy.

Singh paid an official visit to Dhaka in September 2011, a trip that was overshadowed by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's opting out of it at the eleventh hour opposing the Teesta river water-sharing accord which, as a result, could not be signed.

Singh contested Lok Sabha elections only once from the South Delhi constituency in 1999 and suffered defeat. After that, he never again ran for the Lok Sabha poll.

However, Singh has been a member of the Rajya Sabha since 1991, where he was the Leader of the Opposition between 1998 and 2004.

In April this year, he retired from Rajya Sabha, the upper House of parliament.​

 

[Krishna with Flute]

Most learned Prime Minister, Great visionary, great economist. RIP doctor saheb. Finding a clean person like him in politics is very rare. You will live in our memories for ever sir.

Manmohan Singh passes away at 92

Former Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh, the architect of India's economic reforms, passed away in New Delhi last night. He was 92.

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Manmohan Singh passes away at 92

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Former Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. File photo

Manmohan Singh, the former Indian prime minister whose economic reforms made his country a global powerhouse, has passed away in New Delhi last night. He was 92.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi confirmed Singh's death, posting on X that India "mourns the loss of one of its most distinguished leaders."

Singh was taken to a hospital in New Delhi after he lost consciousness at his home yesterday evening, but could not be resuscitated and was pronounced dead at 9:51pm local time, according to a statement by the All India Institute of Medical Sciences.

Singh, who was twice prime minister in the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance government from 2004 to 2014, has been in indifferent health for the last few months.

Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and her mother Sonia Gandhi reached the hospital soon after the news of Singh's hospitalisation broke.

Singh, who was the finance minister under the then prime minister PV Narasimha Rao, was the architect and the brainchild of economic reforms in 1991 that pulled India from the brink of bankruptcy and ushered in an era of economic liberalisation that is widely believed to have changed the course of India's economic trajectory.

Singh is credited with having overseen an economic boom in Asia's fourth-largest economy in his first term, although slowing growth in later years marred his second stint.

Born in 1932 in the mud-house village of Gah in what is now Pakistan, Singh studied economics to find a way to eradicate poverty in the vast nation and never held elected office before taking the nation's highest office.

His life was a testament to service, scholarship and leadership.

He earned a Master's degree in Economics from Panjab University, Chandigarh, and obtained a doctorate from the University of Oxford.

Singh's village, where he was born, lacked a school, healthcare, and electricity, forcing him to walk miles to an Urdu-medium school and study by kerosene lamp at night.

He attributed his rise to the "system of scholarships" for poor students that existed at the time.

Singh worked in a string of senior civil posts, served as a central bank governor and also held various jobs with global agencies such as the United Nations.

Amid one of the worst financial crisis in India's modern history, Congress PM Narasimha Rao appointed his as finance minister to pull the country back from the brink. And he did exactly that.

Later, in his first term as PM, Singh steered the economy through a period of nine-percent growth, lending the country the international clout it had long sought.

He also sealed a landmark nuclear deal with the US that he said would help India meet its growing energy needs.

Known as "Mr Clean", Singh nonetheless saw his image tarnished during his decade-long tenure when a series of corruption cases became public.

Several months before the 2014 elections, Singh said he would retire after the polls, with Sonia Gandhi's son Rahul earmarked to take his place if Congress won.

But Congress crashed to its worst-ever result at that time as the Bharatiya Janata Party, led by Modi, won a landslide.

Singh -- who said historians would be kinder to him than contemporary detractors -- became a vocal critic of Modi's economic policies, and more recently warned about the risks that rising communal tensions posed to India's democracy.

Singh paid an official visit to Dhaka in September 2011, a trip that was overshadowed by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's opting out of it at the eleventh hour opposing the Teesta river water-sharing accord which, as a result, could not be signed.

Singh contested Lok Sabha elections only once from the South Delhi constituency in 1999 and suffered defeat. After that, he never again ran for the Lok Sabha poll.

However, Singh has been a member of the Rajya Sabha since 1991, where he was the Leader of the Opposition between 1998 and 2004.

In April this year, he retired from Rajya Sabha, the upper House of parliament.​

Nary, Great economist