Prime Minister Sir, as Finance Minister, in your budget speech of 1994–95, you had famously invoked Victor Hugo to say that: “No power on earth can stop an idea whose time has come.” If our first Prime Minister, Pandit Nehru, gave us “the idea of India”, you had reinvented the idea to unleash India’s “animal spirits”, Keynes’ memorable phrase for “get up and go” entrepreneurism.
As a nation, it is our collective dream, hope and joy to take forward that idea of India. On the occasion of its Platinum Jubilee, the Reserve Bank of India rededicates itself to the continuing task of turning that idea into reality. 4  BIS Review 42/2010