Jayanth Rama Varma — an academic whose four-year term as an external member on the monetary policy committee comes to an end in early October — said over the past year or so, “food inflation has consisted largely of transient spikes that do not spill over into core inflation.” Jayanth Rama Varma — an academic whose four-year term as an external member on the monetary policy committee comes to an end in early October — said over the past year or so, “food inflation has consisted largely of transient spikes that do not spill over into core inflation.” Economic Times