Experience more relevant than what you learnt 35-40 yrs ago: RBI governor

Das pulled out from retirement and dashed to the Mint Road within two days of Urijit Patel quit on December 10, 2018, after many a run-in with the government

Shaktikanta Das has played down many jokes and spoofs about his history background soon after his surprise appointment as the 25th governor of the Reserve Bank of India last December after the “protest” resignation of Urjit Patel.
  
Academic qualification of the head of the central bank is not relevant, but what matters is his/her grip on the economy, general awareness about the issues facing the economy and professional experience, is how Das has deflected the question from an audience who sought to know whether his non-economic academic background has weighed him down as the governor. Das pulled out from