A modest top-floor house in Guwahati’s Sarumotoria locality stands as a silent witness to an extraordinary chapter in India’s political history.

India’s former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, widely regarded as the architect of India’s economic reform program and a landmark nuclear deal with the United States, has died

India and Pakistan-- he and his family had moved to the Indian side of the border in Amritsar, Punjab. By the time he returned to India in 1969, he was a renowned economist. He was appointed as chief economic advisor to the government of India and later as the governor of India's central bank,