The third successive rate cut this year takes the total reduction in policy rates since April 2012 to 1.25 percentage points.

WSJ: India Cuts Policy Rate

The RBI's third successive rate cut this year takes the total reduction in policy rates since April 2012 to one and a quarter percentage points.

WSJ: India Cuts Policy Rate

Yet the combined efforts of four successive finance ministers have secured only a modest 10% reduction.

ECONOMIST: The French president

"After three years of successive drops, it looks like there has been a general reduction in illegal poisoning, " he said.

BBC: Golden eagle