The Top
100 Heroes of Western Culture
These individuals have most contributed to replacing
ignorance with knowledge, savagery with civilization,
disease with health, tyranny with liberty, poverty with
abundance, and despair with happiness.
#97: Manmohan Singh (1932- )
Manmohan Singh (1932- ) is largely responsible for India's original
and historic economic reform program which was enacted in 1991.
This program was generally capitalistic
and, as a result, has already lifted at least tens of millions of
Indians from both physical and spiritual poverty.
Whether India's economic progress is sustained in the future is in
question, but if it is, Dr. Singh's standing as a hero of Western
culture will likely rise significantly.