Nani Palkhivala: the expensive lawyer who fought for liberty
Nani Palkhivala died on 11 December 2002, aged 82. The suffocating Licence Raj he spent his life attacking was eventually dismantled in 1991, less by his soaring rhetoric than by a balance-of-payments crisis and the quiet technocracy of Manmohan Singh. The financial prophet, witty, fiery, and fiercely outspoken, had the particular misfortune of being heard by thousands and listened to by no one in power, until history finally proved him correct.
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