Journalist A.K. Bhattacharya authored a new book titled “India’s Finance Ministers”: Veteran journalist Ashok Kumar Bhattacharya (AK Bhattacharya) has written a new book titled “India’s Finance Ministers: From Independence to Emergency (1947-1977)” that highlights the role of India’s finance ministers in shaping the country’s economy in the first 30 years (from 1947 to 1977). The book is published by Penguin Business an imprint of Penguin Random House.
The essence of the book:
The book is divided into 3 main parts: Nehru and his finance ministers, those under Shastri and Indira Gandhi, and Indira Gandhi as her own finance minister. Economic Journalist AK Bhattacharya is the editorial director of Business Standard and the writer of a long-running column – Raisina Hill. he has also served as the editor of the Pioneer and Business Standard. As the book makes it clear, though Nehru was a towering personality, the finance ministers he worked with like John Matthai, CD Deshmukh, TT Krishnamachari and Morarji Desai were no pygmies.
