Recently, India’s main economist and Chairman of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (EAC-PM) Bibek Debroy has been conferred a Lifetime Achievement Award not too long ago by the Australia-India Chamber of Commerce (AICC), a enterprise community that seeks to facilitate, nurture and rework Australia-India enterprise.
This extremely coveted honour was bestowed upon Debroy in appreciation of his excellent contribution and repair in direction of rising financial prosperity in India. But there’s one other aspect of the economist in Debroy.
An astute scholar, he has translated the unabridged model of the Mahabharata into English. He has additionally translated the Bhagavad Gita, the Harivamsa, the Vedas and Valmiki’s Ramayana (in three volumes). He has translated the Bhagavata Purana (in three volumes), the Markandeya Purana (one quantity), the Brahma Purana (two volumes) and the Vishnu Purana (one quantity).
He is barely the second individual to have translated each the Mahabharata and the Ramayana, in unabridged type, into English. Sharing this data after his assembly with Debroy on Wednesday, filmmaker-actor Rahul Mittra mentioned he was offered the unabridged model of the Mahabharata into English by Debroy, in a collection of 10 volumes.
Rahul Mittra shared pictures on his Instagram deal with @ramitts and wrote: “Enlightened to meet up with top economist Padma Shri Dr Bibek debroy, Chairman of the Economic Advisory Council to Prime Minister of India (EAC-PM) and acclaimed Sanskrit scholar along with his gracious wife Suparna at their lovely home and to be presented with his 10 volume unabridged translation of the Mahabharata !!”
Debroy’s work on poverty alleviation
Educated in Calcutta, Delhi and Cambridge, Bibek Debroy has labored within the realm of academia, the federal government and analysis establishments. When Niti Aayog (the successor to the previous Planning Commission) was arrange in January 2015, Bibek Debroy was a Member of the Aayog from January 2015 until August 2017 after which he grew to become the Chairman of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister.
Bibek Debroy has labored on poverty, inequality, growth, governance, regulation reform and worldwide commerce points and has been the Chairman of a Committee arrange by the Chief Minister of Jharkhand (2010-12) to suggest a growth plan for the State and a Member of the Rajasthan Chief Minister’s Economic Advisory Council (2014-15).
He was additionally Chairman of a High-Powered Committee for Restructuring the Railways, arrange by Union authorities (2014-2015). From September 2018 to September 2022, he was the President of the Indian Statistical Institute. He has obtained Lifetime Achievement Award by US-India Business Summit (2016) and Skoch Foundation award (2022) and Padma Shri in 2015.
Source: www.ibtimes.co.in
