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BOARD OF ADVISORS
N.R. Narayana Murthy, H.V. Gowthama, Shukla A great mistake the Congress party made after independence was to
Bose, Dr. Glenn Christo, Dr. R. Natarajan abandon the sub-continent’s ancient tradition of free enterprise
(Bangalore); Adi Godrej, Dr. Augustine Pinto, and free markets and take a sharp Left ideological turn under the
Guilherme Vaz, Ketan Gala, Kirit Mehta, Balkishan
Sharma (Mumbai); Dr. Ramdas Pai (Manipal); influence of Jawaharlal Nehru, free India’s first prime minister.
Prof. Geeta Kingdon (Lucknow); Rajiv Desai, Dr. Nehruvian socialism resulted in politically free India becoming
Parth Shah, Jeroninio Almeida, Premchand Palety
(Delhi); Dr. Kannan Gireesh (Chennai); Robindra an economically enslaved nation. All business, industrial and
Subba (Kurseong); Sanjeev Bolia (Kolkata); Dr. education initiatives became subject to government supervision and permis-
Achyuta Samanta (Bhubaneswar); Shyama Thakore sion — “everything was disallowed until it was allowed”.
(London)
Nehru’s legacy of socialism was continued by his daughter and four times
EDITOR prime minister (1966-84), Indira Gandhi. Inevitably, economic development
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suffered and for almost 40 years free India experienced an annual 3.5 percent
MANAGING EDITOR rate of GDP growth – as against 7-10 percent in South-east Asia and China.
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This economic stagnation was unacceptable. In 1978, the very year when
CHIEF SUB-EDITOR Deng Xiaoping firmly placed neighbouring communist China on the “capital-
Sundar Anand ist road”, your editor was appointed founding-editor of Business India and
Paromita Sengupta, Reshma Ravishanker, Gopi later BusinessWorld to expose the folly of licence-permit-quota (LPQ) raj over
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9868256512, Baishali Mukherjee (Kolkata) business and industry. These pioneer publications prepared the ground for the
9836491981, Shivani Chaturvedi (Chennai) belated liberalisation of the Indian economy in 1991 under the under-appreci-
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