P.P. Ramachandran

P.P. Ramachandran, 86 years old, is a post graduate in Economics, post graduate in Comparative Mythology, certificate and diploma holder in Sanskrit from Mumbai University. He has served in the Reserve Bank of India for forty years in a number of Departments and retired as Deputy General Manager. He has a rich collection of illuminating stories and entertaining anecdotes about RBI personnel—high and low—from Governors to Economic Assistants. His repertoire is quite impressive and his recounting quite racy. He writes for several journals and is a prolific reviewer of books, and a book selector for libraries. He gives lectures regularly to audiences, young and old on different disciplines. He resides in Mumbai with his wife and two daughters. He is a rare bird—a literary banker his hobbies are reading, writing and watching English, Malayalam movies and art-films. He has published two books—“A Bunch of Fragrant Roses” and “RBI—An Anecdotal History”. Both books are published by Academic Foundation.
According to late Shri S.S. Tarapore, ex-Deputy Governor, “Shri Ramachandran is at his scintillating best handling vastly different subjects and in one lifetime he has performed as central banker, journalist, social worker, critic, biographer and more”.