{"id":68612,"date":"2024-12-30T01:37:51","date_gmt":"2024-12-29T16:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/29\/manmohan-singh-obituary"},"modified":"2024-12-30T01:37:51","modified_gmt":"2024-12-29T16:37:51","slug":"manmohan-singh-obituary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=68612","title":{"rendered":"Manmohan Singh obituary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime minister of India who brought in economic reforms and forged a new relationship with the US<\/p>\n<p>The distinguished economist Manmohan Singh, who has died aged 92, was one of India\u2019s longest serving prime ministers (and the first Sikh to hold the office), yet he never won a direct parliamentary election. After nearly two decades as an economic bureaucrat, Singh was often seen as more of a civil servant than a politician. Unlike India\u2019s more charismatic leaders, he humbly admitted to being a poor public speaker.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, as India\u2019s finance minister (1991-96) this unlikely politician played a crucial role in the economic reforms that led to the rapid growth of India\u2019s GDP. Then, as prime minister from 2004, he forged a new relationship with the US, ended India\u2019s nuclear isolation and passed groundbreaking social legislation. In all this, he was bolstered by his reputation for absolute honesty, a considerable asset in the world of Indian politics.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/29\/manmohan-singh-obituary\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime minister of India who brought in economic reforms and forged a new relationship with the USThe distinguished economist Manmohan Singh, who has died aged 92, was one of India\u2019s longest serving prime ministers (and the first Sikh to hold the office&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4549,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[437,62,1333,433,60,3214,3213,1144,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-india","category-international-monetary-fund-imf","category-narendra-modi","category-pakistan","category-rajiv-gandhi","category-university-of-cambridge","category-university-of-oxford","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4549"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68613,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68612\/revisions\/68613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}