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'''Mangalore Ranga Pai''' (7 May 1931 – 3 July 2003), or '''M. R. Pai''', was an Indian journalist and business consultant. Pai was born in [[Manjeshwar]], [[Kerala]], a small village on the Karnataka-Kerala Border. He studied at [[Canara High School]], [[Mangalore]] and later at [[Presidency College, Chennai|Presidency College]], [[Madras]] where he obtained an MA in political science at the top of his class and received the Candeth Gold Medal from [[Madras University]].

==Degree in journalism==
After his studies he went to [[Bombay]], where he worked as an assistant editor with the ''[[Times of India]]''. Two years later he went to the [[United States]], where he obtained a master's degree in [[journalism]] from the [[University of California]], [[Los Angeles]]. During his stay in the US, he had the opportunity of editing a newspaper at the ''Carlsbad Journal'' in a small town [[Carlsbad, California|Carlsbad]], [[California]].

==Joins Forum of Free Enterprise==
He returned to India and joined the New India Assurance Company Limited for a short while until it was nationalised, and then joined the Forum of Free Enterprise, which was launched on 18 July 1956 by the late A D Shroff. In 1957, along with [[Nani Palkhivala]], the forum was developed into a national organisation which organised meetings on economic subjects across the country.

Through the forum he was responsible in corresponding with members of the Parliament of India, and other opinion leaders.

He left the forum in 1976 to become a business consultant. However, he continued to be its vice president till his death. In 2004, the All India Bank Depositors' Association, which he founded and headed, started the M. R. Pai Award.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.moneylife.in/article/moneylife-foundation-selected-for-the-10th-mr-pai-award/38694.html |title=Moneylife Foundation selected for the 10th MR Pai Award |date=4 September 2014 |publisher=moneylife.in |accessdate=30 September 2015}}</ref>

==Meeting with Milton Friedman==
When [[Milton Friedman]] visited India in 1963, Pai was responsible for his meetings in India.<ref>{{cite book
| last = Fernandes
| first = Allwyn
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| title = M. R. Pai - Citizen Extraordinary
| publisher = M. R. Pai Foundation
| date = October 2006
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A few years later in 1998 in their autobiography ''Two Lucky People'', the Friedmans made a mention of Pai.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://forumindia.org/forum_journey.htm |title=Forum Journey |access-date=7 March 2007 |archive-date=11 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220111062533/http://forumindia.org/forum_journey.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite book
| last = Friedman
| first = Milton and Rose D
| authorlink = Milton Friedman
| title = Two Lucky People
| publisher = University Of Chicago Press
| date = 1 June 1999
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| url = https://archive.org/details/twoluckypeopleme00frie
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He was the secretary of the forum till 1976, and its vice president till his death.

==Consumer activist==
During the years of the [[controlled economy]] India, when almost all services where provided by a Government owned [[monopoly]], the services that could be availed by a consumer was either appalling or even non existent.

It was during this time when the term ''consumer rights'' was yet to gain popularity, that Pai was able to make a big impact. Services offered by the Indian Telephones, Indian nationalised banks and Indian Airlines among others began to face his ire. He started demanding good services for the customer at every available forum.

He was an honorary secretary of the All-India Bank Depositors' Association, through which he published the book ''Depositors’ Rights and Customer Service in Banks'' which provided the customer of a bank with information required to deal with the various problems faced by them.

The Indian edition of [[Reader's Digest]], featured him on the cover of their October 1995 issue under the title ''M. R. Pai - Champion of the Consumer''.

==Books==
He has written about five books
* ''An Indian Economic Miracle and Other Essays'' (1970)
* ''How to Arrange Programmes and Meetings''
* ''How to Save and Invest''
* ''Time Management''
* ''The Legend of Nani Palkhivala'' (2002)

==References==
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