Frankly , even during the darkest days of our existence as an independent republic in the period between 1989-2000 beginning with the Kashmir insurgency breaking out in addition to the one in Punjab , various secessionist movements in the NE , the Maoist problem among other national & international issues we were grappling with but more to the point here , in the midst of bankruptcy during PM Chandrashekhar's brief reign when Yashwant Sinha was the Finance Minister & we had to mortgage our sovereign gold then with enough Forex to last barely 3 weeks , we didn't face such exigencies.
Sometimes we don't appreciate our political class & our bureaucracy enough for since that humiliating event we've never gone to international bodies for a loan in deep desperation to tide over a crisis ever again unlike many in our immediate neighborhood & I'm not just referring to Paxtan here .