- Likes vegetarian food and fish; dosa is a favourite
- Has a razor-sharp memory, remembers facts and figures
- Was nicknamed MacMohan, after the Hindi movie villain
- Perceived to be a loyalist, but has strong convictions
- Highly emotional; threatened to resign twice as FM
- His team in 1991-96 was nicknamed the ‘Singh Parivar’ as it had key advisors like N.K. Singh and Montek Singh
- Favourite quote: "Victor Hugo said no power can stop an idea whose time has come."