News Summary

• During 1990-92, RBI governor S Venkitaramanan skilfully steered India out of imminent financial collapse by pledging the gold in his vaults.
• Manoj Bajpayee plays the titular Governor in a film of the same name, armed with an on-and-off Tamil accent.
• The intention is clear in the depiction of Manmohan Singh, the prime architect of liberalisation, which changed India in ways no one who lived through those restricted times could imagine.