Who was an Indian economist and diplomat and author of "Sino-Indian Conflict and International Politics in the Indian Sub-Continent",

    1  Dr. Abid Hussain 
    2  karan singh
    3  Siddhartha Shankar Ray
    4  Saiyid Nurul Hasan









  Ans : 1

 
 
  
 With Abid Hussain, Haribhakti, J.N. Guzder, Minoo Shroff & Mrs. DRP
- At Indo-Japan Association Meeting, April 1987

Dr. Abid Hussain (26 December 1926 – 21 June 2012) was an Indian economist and diplomat. He was married to Trilok Karki, author of "Sino-Indian Conflict and International Politics in the Indian Sub-Continent", (1977) and has three children. His brother is the actor and mime artist Irshad Panjatan. Dr. Hussain grew up in his hometown Hyderabad, in Andhra Pradesh.

Abid Hussain will be remembered for his achievements in public life

The sudden death of Abid Hussain by a massive heart attack 21.june 2012, was a tragedy for his family. He was in London with his wife Karki (a woman of great charm and intellectual achievement) on way to Washington to be with his daughter Vishaka and died in his sleep, in keeping with the generosity of spirit that marked his life: he would not impose a long illness on his beloved family.

.Dr. Hussain was honoured in 1988 with the Padma Bhushan (awarded to recognize distinguished service of a high order to the nation) and has been at the forefront of India's economic and trade reforms since the 1980s. He chaired six important committees set up by the Government of India covering Trade Policy Reforms; Project Exports; CSIR Review Committee for Development of Science and Technology; Textile Policy of the Government of India; Development of Capital Market; and Small Scale Industry. Of these, the Abid Hussain Committee Report on Trade Policy Reform and the Abid Hussain Committee Report on Small Scale Industries have been regarded as milestones in India’s economic reforms.

At the time of his death, Dr. Abid Hussain was Chancellor of English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad; Chancellor of ICFAI Foundation for Higher Education, member on the Board of Trustees, of India Development Foundation of Overseas Indians (Ministry of External Affairs), member of International Panel on Democracy & Development of UNESCO; Prof Emeritus at Indian Institute of Foreign Trade; Prof. Emeritus at the Foreign Service Institute of Ministry of External Affairs; Chairman of Ghalib Academy and Vice President of Rumi Foundation.
He was also President of Katha, Chairman of Research Council of National Institute of Science, Technology & Development Studies (CSIR); India-China Economic & Cultural Council; Bhartiya Vidya Bhavan, NOIDA Kendra, Member of the Board of Trustees of the Observer Research Foundation, Member of the Board of Governors of Himigri Nabh University, Dehra Dun and several other cultural organizations. He was a member of the Nehru Memorial Fund; the Asia Society, New York; Population Foundation of India; Foundation for Academic Excellence & Access; Administrative Staff College of India, Hyderabad; Shankar Lall Murli Dhar Memorial Society; and the Governing Council of Ranbaxy Science Foundation.
In addition, he was President of Lovraj Memorial Trust and a member of Academy of the Kingdom of Morocco and BP Koirala Foundation (Nepal).
Dr Hussain was for nine years Special Rapporteur to UN on Freedom of Opinion and Expression. He was a member of the Constitution Review Commission set up by Government of India. He was a member of the Prasar Bharati Board till April 2001. Till recently Dr. Hussain was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, New York.
During his long standing career he was U.N Adviser on Turkey on Community Development for two years and also Chief of Industrial, Technology, Human Settlements and Environment in the UN Regional Commission of ESCAP, Bangkok for seven years. He has also been Vice Chairman of Rajiv Gandhi Foundation, Chancellor of Central University, Hyderabad and Trustee of the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts Trust. Dr. Hussain presided over several national and international conferences and contributes papers on contemporary issues.
He was an active member of civil society and contributed to contemporary debates on a wide range of issues including globalization, Internet censorship, gender issues, freedom of expression, and cultural relativism.

He must be remembered for the most compelling of his achievements; and these are twofold: his pioneering work on community development and his unwavering support for our economic reforms

Why was he an icon? The reason was that he was helping Turkey with setting up its community development programme, seeking to lift up the rural communities. Abid had been a pioneer in our own community development programmes. It is a sad commentary that today we make much of "new kids on the block" like my colleague Jeffrey Sachs with his village projects which are mostly hype, even ignoring his dramatic failures as with shock therapy in Russia. Instead we need to honour our hero Abid.
But Abid's other principal achievement, for which the nation must honour him, is that, along with the prime minister, he was the one, unwavering proponent of our reforms. He was resolutely, but politely, against the extensive proliferation of senseless regulations and controls: he had seen it at first hand in the commerce assignment. He loved the witticism that the problem in India was that Adam Smith's Invisible Hand was nowhere to be seen. He matched it with his own wit as when, told by an American friend that immigrant Indians were of great benefit to America, he wisecracked: make sure, however, not to get them into your bureaucracy!