A look back at economist Isher Judge Ahluwalia and her Illustrious Career & Life

Judge’s life was one of a young woman with big ambitions who broke barriers in academics in India.
Judge’s life was one of a young woman with big ambitions who broke barriers in academics in India.
Isher Judge Ahluwalia, a renowned intellectual and economist passed away followed a hard fought battle with cancer. She would have turned 75 on October 1. Judge Ahluwalia was chairperson of a think-tank called Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER) for 15 years and stepped down last month due to ill health. She […]
Isher’s life, she affirms, has been “an absolute joyride”, and she did not realise that there was a crash-landing ahead.