Country announced seven-day mourning period and has cancelled all cultural and entertainment events in the coming week

I T IS FITTING that Manmohan Singh, who unshackled Indian trade and industry as the country’s finance minister in 1991, was the son of an importer. His father’s firm in Peshawar brought dry fruit and spices to India from Afghanistan.

The former prime minister and finance minister, a socialist economist, shifted his ideology and stance to the changing times and aligned to the free markets dictum which literally pulled the Indian ec