Economist Isher Judge Ahluwalia. (Express Archive)
Isher Ahluwalia was an amazing woman — and you’d know that if you read the book (Breaking Through) that she wrote at the end of her life. She was very keen that she wrote it before she passed away. She was a self-made woman. She came from a middle-class upbringing, a Hindi-medium background and yet she scaled such enormous heights because of her intellectual appetite and capability. She was one of the most brilliant and inspiring minds I have met.
(Isher Judge Ahluwalia, 74, economist, urban infrastructure expert and former chairperson of the Indian Council for Research on International…
