OBITUARY: C.T. Kurien, 1931–2024

Christopher Thomas Kurien, scholar of distinction and social conscience, and an inspiring teacher of economics, died on 23 July at the MOSC Medical College Hospital in Kolencherry, Kerala. He was 93.

CTK’s entry into economics was inspired by the vision of the tryst with destiny speech, and in particular Jawaharlal Nehru’s exhortation that ‘the service of India means … the ending of poverty and ignorance and disease and inequality of opportunity.’