The former prime minister’s death deprives India of sage counsel at a time when his reforms are being replaced by empty bluster, says Bloomberg Opinion’s Andy Mukherjee. HONG KONG: Manmohan Singh was the face of India’s transformation. As finance minister in the early 1990s, and from 2004 as its prime minister for a decade, his reforms loosened excessive state controls, opened up the economy, pulled millions out of poverty and made the West accept the nuclear-armed nation as an ally. Or at