It is an honour to which I attach a lot of value. P.N. Haksar, whom this series of lectures commemorates, was an outstanding civil servant, an intellectual power house and a grand visionary who had a profound impact on the economic and political management of the country during critical, and often turbulent, times in our post-independence history. P.N. Haksar 2.
I did not have the pleasure of knowing Shri Haksar personally. By the time I joined the IAS in the early 1970s, he was already in the top echelons of the Government with a legendary reputation as a policy wonk.