I was in jail, Manmohan offered to pay tuition fees for my kids, recounts Malaysian PM
India TodayA Cambridge graduate, Oxford alumnus, professor, finance minister, and two-term Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh's legacy is celebrated worldwide. Among these tributes, Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim shared a deeply personal story about Manmohan Singh, that shows the humane side of the celebrated economist. As Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh was the midwife of India’s emergence as one of the world’s economic giants," Anwar wrote on X. Anwar, who served as Malaysia’s finance minister during the 1990s, recalled witnessing Singh’s groundbreaking economic reforms. “During my incarceration, Dr. Manmohan Singh extended a kindness he didn’t have to—a gesture neither politically expedient nor likely to be appreciated by the Malaysian government at the time. As the nation pays its last respects to the person who unlocked economic growth for its people, the anecdote shared by Malaysian PM Anwar Ibrahim reveals the humane side of Manmohan Singh.