Rohit Bal And The Grandiosity Of Grief
“Irreparable loss,” the phrase that leapt out for this author from economist and author Bibek Debroy’s last piece of public writing published posthumously, is one of the blandest cliches casually thrown around in obituaries. Debroy, in his characteristic sardonic humorist style, punched a hole in the vacuous loftiness of the phrase. Irreparable loss to whom…