new delhi viral acharya is rbis reserve bank of india youngest deputy governor post liberalisation the 43 yearold is on a threeyear leave from his job as a professor of economics at nyu stern new york university stern school of business to carry out his rbi assignmentthe iitbombay alumnus resume is studded with several achievements but what you wont find there is the fact that during his bschool days in new york he had started an indian film music band called surbahaartrained in hindustani classical music the singer and music aficionado in acharya revealed itself on thursday as he explained the relation between government and rbi with the help of legendary musicial kishore kumars songsspeaking at the launch of veteran journalist tamal bandyopadhyays book from lehman to demonetization a decade of disruptions reforms and misadventures acharya shared that he had a few kishore kumar songs on how monetary policy decisions can be announcedasked about the most memorable or exciting moment during his 9month stint at the rbi he first took a dig at the days when perhaps monetary policy was not explicitly mandated to target inflation and rbi did not have the formal independent process for it he said the rbi governor those days used to be like rajesh khanna singing aap ke finance minister anurodh pe mai yeh rate ghatata hu which roughly translates to at your request i am cutting the rate for the uninitiated the reference is from the khannastarrer anurodh released in 1977 where the lead hero playing a singer hums aap ke anurodh pe main yeh geet sunata hu at your request i present this song as the title credits rollbut acharya was not done yet speaking of independent monetary policy framework days he sang which initially he refused to do a more popular number to elaborate the tension between the finance minister and central bank over tweaking policy rates breaking into the song he said a governor today refuses to reduce repo rate singing nahi nahi abhi nahi thoda karo intezaar nonot yet wait a bit with bandopadhyay and the audience in splits acharya delivered the final punch saying that the finance minister would come the next day with the next line of the song mai hu bekarari am eagerthe government has been pushing the rbi to cut lending rate to boost private investments the central bank though is stoic because of inflationary pressure while acharya surely can marry the drab world of fiscal prudence with hit hindi film songs with elan the real task at hand would be to balance inflation and growth with equal ease