Chief economic advisor turns literature guide at lecture

On a day when rupee keeled over and went under the 65-to-the-dollar psychological mark, Arvind Subramanian refused to talk about it. Instead, the chief economic advisor focused on what Conrad, Naipaul and Giuseppe Di Lampedusa

had to say about the wealth of nations, and ended up giving a master

class on ‘How literature can help in our understanding of economic

development’.