Destiny child turns 20
Savour the highs and the lows, the hits and the misses. We hope you
enjoy it as much as the team that put it together.
It was India's second tryst with destiny. July 1991. The economy is on the edge of a precipice, growing at low single-digit numbers, foreign exchange reserves are at Rs 2,500 crore (enough to finance imports for just a fortnight) and inf lation in double digits. Business Today is yet to be born.
Then, Manmohan Singh rises to present the Budget in Parliament. There is no time to lose, he says, and reads out an 18,500-word thriller in which the word reform figures just 14 times. Two decades on, India stands transformed, poised to become the world's fastest-growing economy, with domestic demand helping it ride out the recent global shock.
Savour the highs and the lows, the hits and the misses. We hope you enjoy it as much as the team that put it together - N. Madhavan, Rishi Joshi, T.V. Mahalingam, Anumeha Chaturvedi, Manu Kaushik and Vijaylakshmi Vardan.
Then, Manmohan Singh rises to present the Budget in Parliament. There is no time to lose, he says, and reads out an 18,500-word thriller in which the word reform figures just 14 times. Two decades on, India stands transformed, poised to become the world's fastest-growing economy, with domestic demand helping it ride out the recent global shock.
Savour the highs and the lows, the hits and the misses. We hope you enjoy it as much as the team that put it together - N. Madhavan, Rishi Joshi, T.V. Mahalingam, Anumeha Chaturvedi, Manu Kaushik and Vijaylakshmi Vardan.
