CHAUDHURI,PRAMIT - A PERSONAL ACCOUNT (REPRINTED FROM ECONOMIC AND POITICAL WEEKLY, VOL 27, 1996)

As an economist who had absorbed the best of the Keynesian revolution, macro-economic balances remained the grid on which Pramit Chaudhuri l aid out his building. But his passion as a social scientist analysing an economy with perhaps the largest burden of poverty in the world cam e out in the fierce Brechtian quote which he used as art epigraph for his book, The Indian Economy - 'Those who have eaten their fill speak to the hungry of the wonderful times to come'.