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Manmohan Singh: Reformer who unfettered economy, stood firm on US nuclear deal

Talk of Manmohan Singh and his term as the finance minister in the Narasimha Rao Cabinet flashes up in our collective memory. The Oxford scholar helped liberalise India's economy and usher in never-seen-before economic growth. The gentle and calm politician, often critiqued as "maunmohan" for being a man of few words, was, in fact, a man of action. India lost one of its economists and prime minister on Thursday. Singh was 93.