5 things you didn’t know about the new economics advisor of Modi- Sanjeev Sanyal
“ Failure is not the end of the road. The willingness to fail is sometimes more important than the goal itself ” — Sanjeev Sanyal
Recently promoted to the post of a full-time member of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (EAC-PM), Sanjeev Sanyal who was earlier the prime economic advisor of the Ministry of finance is an Indian economist, environmentalist, urbanist, writer.
Everyone is eager to know about this 51-year-old, economist who is destined to take decisions of the world’s 3rd largest economy.
1. Brought up in Kolkata
Born on 27 august 1970 and brought up in Kolkata, India, Sanjeev did his schooling at St Xavier’s school and St James school. To proceed with his career in economics, there could have been none other colleges than Sri ram college of commerce.
2. Achievements
To climb one more step towards his goal he went to Oxford University to complete his study, but his list of achievements doesn’t stop here. Sanyal has been a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, London, Visiting Scholar at Oxford University, an Adjunct Fellow at the Institute of Policy Studies (Singapore), and a Senior Fellow of the World Wide Fund for Nature(formerly World Wildlife Fund).
He worked as the managing director and global strategist in Deutsche bank. He is the co-chair of the frame working group of G20, which makes him more capable to stay beside the Indian Prime minister
3. oppose Nehru’s socialist views
If you have been an Indian student then you must have read the NCERT or other state social science textbooks where it is clearly shown J.Nehru helped the drowning Indian economy to get stable. But Sanjeev completely criticizes Nehruvian socialism along with P.C. Mahalanobis
He opposes them for treating the Indian economy as a ‘mechanical toy’ and leaving very little space for private enterprises to do progress. But he praises the 1991 liberalization reforms and calls it the harbinger of the Indian renaissance
4. Propaganda of Ashoka
Imagine, One day you wake up and hear that all the great stuff you heard about the Chakravarti Samrat Ashoka was a lie and was intentionally created. At least Sanjeev thinks that most of them were lies
In his book ‘The Ocean of Churn’ he argues about the image of Ashoka that has been created intentionally not only that he also mentions that the conversion of Ashoka to Buddhism was due to political pressure not because of the guilt about the Kalinga war.
5. Importance of ‘Arthashastra’
He appreciates the great Chanakya and his work on political economy in the book ‘Arthashastra’. He insists on fixing the judicial system, investing in internal security, and simplification of taxation system by doing which we can go back to the golden age of India.
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