Was Manmohan Singh the most consequential Prime Minister in India's history, as Sonia Gandhi now argues? There is a delicious irony in the political afterlife of Dr Manmohan Singh. I made a similar argument in my essay, 'Manmohan Singh: The Constrained Genius', written after his death in December 2024. And this is where the story of Dr Manmohan Singh becomes larger than the man himself. Also Read: How a generation shook the cult of invincibilityDr Manmohan Singh had no political inheritance.