The Lecture Hall Complex at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi, is looking unusually busy these days, with hundreds of students and faculty members rushing in early to find good seats. The guest speaker is not a celebrated scientist or an engineer, but an economist. Arvind Subramanian, chief economic advisor to the government and former economist at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), has taken time off from his regular schedule to hold classes for a week on applied economics at IIT Delhi.
This is the first time after taking over as CEA in 2014 that Subramanian has donned a professor’s