OBITUARY : Nirmal Kumar Chandra

There was something unreal about Nirmal Kumar Chandra, the renowned economist, who passed away on 19 March 2014. Totally free of any malice, totally devoid of any pettiness and totally free of any desire to get into the limelight, indeed of any parvenu quality whatsoever, he was the sort of person one often reads about in fiction but scarcely meets in real life.