As RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das held forth on the current lean patch of the economy at a FICCI event today, he gave India a rarely used, Tharooresque term to talk about: Panglossian. "Mood of doom and gloom is not going to help anyone. I am not saying we maintain a Panglossian outlook and smile at everything — I don’t expect people to smile away difficulty — but a mood of doom and gloom will not help anyone," Das said.
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