The governor and the media

In India, always late to catch up, the 1980s continued along the old lines - near zero mention of the governor's name even when the RBI was being covered

Films, sport, politics, sex — and now central bank governors as well. You’d never have thought a day would come when a part of the media would cover them with the same intensity, even if not the same frequency.

There was a time when no one knew the names of central bank governors, nor cared. I remember going for a job interview in 1973 and being asked who the RBI governor was, I didn’t have a clue and almost said Tulmohan Ram, who was in the news those days for a major scandal.

The obscurity of central bank governors gave way to