Tuesday, September 3, 2013

The new Rajan

.........The unprecedented scrutiny, at least in the non-pink papers and social media chatterati, has as much to do with his intellectual prowess as with his rather photogenic appeal. (Really, when was the last time the country's senior most financial regulator elicited such mainstream curiosity-anyone remember S. Venkitaramanan, RBI Governor at the height of an even graver financial crisis in 1991?).  But as the trim 50-year-old settles down in his 18th floor office at the RBI headquarters at Ballard Estate, Raghuram Rajan and his wife Radhika Puri, whom he met while studying at IIM, Ahmedabad, will also be looking to create a new life in Mumbai over the next three years...............

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