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Bibek Debroy: The Sanskritist who simplified things

December 10, 2024 7:42 pm

It was a vocation for him, to dive deep into complex spiritual texts, and to unfurl the stories within, into annotated and unbelievable simplicity for the rest of us mortals.

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Debroy committee charted the Railways' path towards viability & competitiveness, but most recommendation still work-in-progress

November 09, 2024 8:25 am

Debroy, who passed away late last week, had a special interest in railways, which is reflected in his series of limericks and the 2015 report.

Economist and Sanskrit scholar Bibek Debroy passed away on November 1.

How Bibek Debroy helped revive a forgotten aspect of the Qutub Minar complex

November 06, 2024 10:48 am

The Qutub complex had Hindu Vedik and Jain iconography — sculptures and beautiful murals of Ganga, Yamuna, Navagrahas, Krishna’s birth, Mahavira, Tirthankars, a calf with its mother — that remained unseen. His intervention helped place that history in context

Bibek Debroy, my guru: His passing is a reminder that even the brightest lives fade

November 05, 2024 4:59 pm

As I sign our columns under my name alone, I feel an unbearable silence, an absence that chills me to my core. Bibek Debroy’s final words haunt me, filling the empty spaces with echoes of that conversation

Remembering Bibek Debroy: The jack of all trades, master of one

Remembering Bibek Debroy: The eclectic economist

November 05, 2024 12:54 pm

He had a wide-ranging scholarship complemented with an elephantine institutional memory, the ability to marry the macros with the micros.

Lessons from my mentor, Bibek Debroy

November 02, 2024 9:20 am

For those who worked with him in PM's Economic Advisory Council, Debroy's handling of differences, commitment to deep reform will be of abiding significance

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The Third Edit: Remembering ‘The Indian Express’ columnist, Bibek Debroy

November 01, 2024 10:39 pm

Days before he died, Debroy sent in his final column to this newspaper. He wrote that with one exception, his would be ‘no permanent loss’. A rare instance in which the columnist was wrong

Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: In government and outside, Bibek Debroy remained his own person

November 02, 2024 9:23 am

In both partisan alignments, first with Congress and then the BJP, he managed to remain his own person: Self-driven, mysterious, funny, but always industrious

Four days before he passed away, Bibek Debroy wrote his obituary: ‘There is a world outside that exists. What if I am not there? What indeed?’

November 18, 2024 10:32 am

"In that event, what would have happened? A few condolences, perhaps even from important people. 'Irreparable loss.' Perhaps a posthumous Padma Bhushan or Padma Vibhushan. A few obituaries," Debroy wrote.