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Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday turned nostalgic after visiting Panjab University’s department of economics in Chandigarh, recalling his journey there as a student and later as a senior lecturer. After delivering the first S B Rangnekar memorial lecture on ‘The Seventieth Anniversary of our Independence – Strengthening the roots of our Democracy’, Singh and his wife Gursharan Kaur visited the economics department. He interacted with students and faculty members there.
When students asked how Singh felt, Upinder Sawhney, the chairperson of the department, said: “The former PM smiled and said ‘very good’ and ‘I am nostalgic’.” Singh did his MA in economics in 1957 from the PU. He recalled his association with the PU and Rangnekar, who was one of the founders of the economics department.
“On return from Cambridge, I joined the department of economics as a senior lecturer. Soon thereafter the department of economics moved to Chandigarh and I had the privilege of working in the department with Dr Rangnekar as its head. Dr Rangnekar and his wife treated me and my wife as a member of their family. That was the happiest period of my life and I recall it with gratitude to Dr. Rangnekars,” said Singh. He later visited Guru Teg Bahadur Hall at the PU to see the nearly 3,500 books and memorabilia donated by him.
