'My Father': Arvind Panagariya pays tribute to his father's hard work

The former vice-chairman of NITI Aayog has written a biography of his father that is very much a son's perspective

“Like the story of any person who has lived a noble life, my father’s life offers lessons in what makes a good human being and what parents must to do make good citizens out of their children,” writes economist Arvind Panagariya, former vice chairman of NITI Aayog, in his new book titled My Father: The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man.

The book is a biographical account celebrating Baloo Lal Panagariya (1921-2006) — the author’s father — who was a newspaper editor, civil servant, and historian of Rajasthan. It aims to remedy the fact that its protagonist “was barely known outside