In his Union Budget speech on July 24, 1991, Manmohan Singh quoted Victor Hugo and said, “No power on earth can stop an idea whose time has come.” He went on to say, “The emergence of India ...

Once Victor Hugo said, “No power on earth can stop an idea whose time has come.” Quoting Hugo Late Former Prime Minister and then Finance Minister Manmohan Singh said to the August Lok Sabha ...

As India mourns former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh who passed away on Thursday, it looks back at his economic reforms and ...

Giving his maiden budget speech as finance minister in 1991, Singh quoted French writer Victor Hugo: "No power on earth can stop an idea whose time has come." “The emergence of India as a major ...

As he concluded his speech, Manmohan Singh quoted Victor Hugo: “Nothing can stop an idea whose time has come." India’s time had come, liberalisation and globalisation arrived and India would ...

The blue-turbaned Sikh with the cerebral image and oversize glasses became a household name in the 1990s when, as finance minister, he promoted India’s economic liberalization by quoting Victor ...

True to his name, he concluded the speech by quoting the famous French novelist Victor Hugo, saying “No power on earth can stop an idea whose time has come”. It was true then and it appears to ...

Quoting Victor Hugo, he said: “No power on earth can stop an idea whose time has come. India is now wide awake. We shall prevail. We shall overcome.” The reforms dismantled the License Raj ...

Benegal directed 24 features, scores of documentaries and short films, and a few serials for television, including the monumental Bharat Ek Khoj (1998), based on Jawaharlal Nehru’s Discovery of India.

But as Victor Hugo once said, 'No power on earth can stop an idea whose time has come.' I suggest to this august House that the emergence of India as a major economic power in the world happens to ...