Subhash Chandra Garg

Ex- Administrator turned into an economist wishing to become a sociologist.

Books

Sun Sign

Libra

Three things people don’t know about you?

transformed from an administrator to an author, lot of interest in economy and society, and love for reading.

What’s your greatest fear?

Nothing.

What is your greatest achievement?

Still perhaps to come

High point of your life?

Left the IAS at the peak of my career.

Low point of your life

None. Life has been good always.

Which living person do you most admire?

I am not a star-struck person.

Who is your favorite fictional hero?

Hardly read fiction.

Who is your favorite fictional villain?

Does not apply

Who are your favorite authors?

Yuval Noah Harari, Adam Smith

What are your 5 favorite books of all time?

Sapiens, wealth of nations, the origin of political order, chip wars and the gene.

Is there a book you love to reread?

Sapiens

What are your 5 favorite movies of all time?

Not a movie buff.

One Superpower you wish you had?

Ability to think dispassionately about economy, people and society.

Your epitaph would read? /Last line in your biography would be?

Forever student.

If you had a time machine to take you back to any country and any time period, where would you choose to be for your childhood, adolosent , adult life and silver years?

I have more interest in future.

If you could acquire any talent, what would it be?

Convincing people

Which book you wish you had written ?

I have written already.

When and where do you write ?

During the day in my home office

Silence or music?

Silence

One phrase that you use most often?

Let us have a reasonable argument.

Do you have a writing ritual / superstition?

No.

What’s your guilty reading pleasure?

No guilt.

Do you have one sentence of advice for new writers?

Follow your passion and thought.

Subhash Chandra Garg, former economic affairs and finance secretary, the Government of India, and secretary budget and principal finance secretary, the Government of Rajasthan, worked on and finalised many budgets and budget speeches. He also served as India’s executive director in the World Bank and was a member on the boards of Reserve Bank of India and SEBI. 

After taking voluntary retirement from the IAS in October 2019, Subhash Chandra Garg, besides having written hundreds of opinion pieces and articles in Money control, Quint, Deccan Herald, and many other newspapers and newsmagazines, has authored two path breaking books. 

The $10 Trillion Dream: The State of Indian Economy and The Policy Reforms Agenda, published by Penguin in February 2022 sets India’s economic policy reforms agenda for making India a $10 trillion economy by the mid-2030s. 

We Also Make Policy, published by HarperCollins in October 2023, unravels economic and financial policy making in the Government of India in the real life situation obtained  in 2017-2019. 

Subhash Chandra Garg started publishing an annual book titled Explanation and Commentary on Budget last year, with the first Edition devoted to the Budget 2023-24. He has now come out with a more streamlined and enriched Budget 2024-25 Edition.

Please reach out to the author if there is any budget provision of relevance to you that is not explained or commented upon in the book at suchgarg60@gmail.com. The author will be happy to acknowledge the same and address that matter in next year’s Edition. 



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