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P Chidambaram
P Chidambaram is former Finance minister of India.
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RBI and govt are poised to implement a rescue plan for Yes Bank that can be only described as bizarreSubscriber Only
March 15, 2020 03:15 IST
The people and Parliament must demand that the names of borrowers (especially the big defaulting ones) be published and the individuals or committees that approved the loans be asked to explain.
Sun, Mar 15, 2020
Economic growth in 2020 may decline further if coronavirus disrupts more productionSubscriber Only
March 08, 2020 04:30 IST
India has cause to worry. As the Prime Minister said a few days ago, we must prepare, not panic. Very true, but how prepared is the country? More pertinently, how prepared is each state of the country?
Sun, Mar 08, 2020
Many suspect that BJP wants people to take to the streets and polarisation to be completeSubscriber Only
March 01, 2020 04:00 IST
There is growing suspicion that the BJP is working to a plan. The BJP is emboldened to pursue its partisan agenda owing to the massive majority it enjoys in the Lok Sabha and the fact that Lok Sabha elections are four years away.
Sun, Mar 01, 2020
P Chidambaram writes: The magic words ‘national interest’ do not signal correctness but finalitySubscriber Only
February 23, 2020 00:53 IST
The magic words are ‘national interest’. They do not signal correctness, they signal finality. Because the PM has declared that the decisions were taken in national interest, he expects that all criticism should cease and all debate should end.
Sun, Feb 23, 2020
P Chidambaram writes: May the tukde tukde gangs grow stronger until they achieve their Constitutional goalsSubscriber Only
February 16, 2020 00:37 IST
There is nothing unusual or inherently wrong about a right-wing ideology. It is only when right-wing leaders politicise their religion and attempt to divide people on the ground of religion that the Constitution is violated and social harmony is disrupted. The BJP has done just that.
Sun, Feb 16, 2020
Faced with severe challenges to the economy, the government has proved to be clueless and timidSubscriber Only
February 09, 2020 02:03 IST
From demonetisation to GST, from Swachh Bharat Mission to electrification of homes, from Ujjwala Yojana to UDAY, every programme has serious shortcomings. Unfortunately, the government lives in an echo chamber and hears only adulatory responses.
Sun, Feb 09, 2020
Brace yourself for an economy that will grow at an unsatisfactory rate in 2020-21Subscriber Only
February 02, 2020 04:32 IST
The take-away from the Budget speech and the Budget numbers is that the BJP has given up on reviving the economy or accelerating the growth rate or promoting private investment or increasing efficiency or creating jobs or winning a greater share of world trade.
Sun, Feb 02, 2020
Budget 2020: Hope for the best, prepare for the worstSubscriber Only
January 26, 2020 00:09 IST
P Chidambaram writes: The economy is not the main concern of the BJP government; it is the Hindutva agenda. On the other hand, the people are concerned with issues tied to economic growth such as more jobs, better producer prices, wages and incomes, relative price stability, access to better education and health care, and improved infrastructure.
Sun, Jan 26, 2020
SC order gives govt a way to retreat from its militaristic approach to Kashmir issueSubscriber Only
January 19, 2020 04:00 IST
The SC judgment also gives hope to the seven million people of the Kashmir Valley that their freedoms will be restored — although there is no sign yet of that happening seven days later
Sun, Jan 19, 2020
Across the aisle: Students have sensed that something is ‘terribly wrong’ in the way country is being governedSubscriber Only
January 12, 2020 04:16 IST
The ferment that we witness in the campuses of Indian universities and colleges bears a striking resemblance to the events of 1968. Students and youth have sensed that something is ‘terribly wrong’ in the way the country is being governed.
Sun, Jan 12, 2020
Constitution is breached every day, denying to millions of people minimum justice, social, economic and politicalSubscriber Only
January 05, 2020 04:45 IST
When Nani Palkhivala propounded the theory of an unalterable and unamendable “basic structure” of Constitution, legal experts scoffed at the argument. How can the power of a sovereign Parliament to amend the Constitution (Article 368) be curtailed or subjected to a review by judges appointed by the Executive, they asked.
Sun, Jan 05, 2020
What will force Mr Modi to change course will be the outcome of the state elections in 2020-21Subscriber Only
December 29, 2019 02:30 IST
In the last two months, BJP was dented in Haryana, denied in Maharashtra and defeated in Jharkhand. This success can be taken forward if non-BJP parties rally around the strongest party in each state. That would mean Congress in Puducherry, Assam and Kerala; DMK in Tamil Nadu; and state-specific arrangements for Bihar and West Bengal.
Sun, Dec 29, 2019
The woes of the FM are not over with the reversal of her prized announcements in the BudgetSubscriber Only
December 22, 2019 04:00 IST
Budget 2019-20 is unique. I know of no budget in recent memory where, after making the Budget, the Finance Minister consciously unmade the Budget.
Sun, Dec 22, 2019
CAA has introduced a new route to acquire citizenship — by executive fiatSubscriber Only
December 15, 2019 00:19 IST
Project Hindu Rashtra is gaining speed. The engine is the Prime Minister, Mr Narendra Modi; at the wheel is the Home Minister, Mr Amit Shah. The designer/engineer, the RSS, is watching with great interest.
Sun, Dec 15, 2019
In an economy sans economists, ministers resort to ‘bluff’ and ‘bluster’Subscriber Only
December 08, 2019 03:51 IST
Chidambaram writes: The government has acknowledged that the economy is in a slowdown, but denied that there were ‘structural’ issues that need to be addressed. The government has described the problems as ‘cyclical’. It is a small mercy that they did not identify the causes as ‘seasonal’!
Fri, Dec 13, 2019
Economy seems to be the last of the concerns of the government after operation J&KSubscriber Only
August 18, 2019 00:10 IST
The economy is one area where muscular nationalism will not work. On the contrary, it may work to the detriment of the economy.
Sun, Aug 18, 2019
J&K is no longer the same J&K. It has been dismemberedSubscriber Only
August 11, 2019 02:45 IST
If the precedent is followed, it is only a matter of time before Darjeeling will be carved out as a Union Territory out of West Bengal. The routine will be to ask the state Assembly to “express its views” or impose President’s rule and dissolve the Assembly.
Sun, Aug 11, 2019
Across the aisle: BJP has used every trick in its bag to pass laws in Rajya SabhaSubscriber Only
August 04, 2019 00:45 IST
The BJP government’s commitment to federalism can be gauged by the manner in which Bills are passed in the Rajya Sabha. The Lok Sabha is the House of the People while the Rajya Sabha is the Council of States.
Sun, Aug 04, 2019
FM Sitharaman’s maiden Finance Bill is constitutionally suspectSubscriber Only
July 28, 2019 01:15 IST
Like there were serious questions about the Budget, there are serious questions about the Finance Bill.
Sun, Jul 28, 2019
$5 trillion economy is not an extraordinary goalSubscriber Only
July 21, 2019 02:00 IST
The CEA has good reason to be worried about the insufficiency of domestic resources. Government/ public investment can be made only out of tax revenues and public sector surpluses. Of these, tax revenues are under pressure. 2018-19 was a particularly dismal year; yet the government has set aggressive targets for tax revenues in 2019-20. Evidently, the CEA does not share the government’s optimism.
Sun, Jul 21, 2019
7% growth will mean little or nothing to the poor, unemployed and exploited sectionsSubscriber Only
July 14, 2019 00:06 IST
Seven per cent growth will be totally insufficient to create wealth or enhance welfare. Seven per cent growth will not generate the millions of jobs that are required. Seven per cent growth will not raise the per capita income of the lowest deciles (the bottom 20 per cent) of the population.
Sun, Jul 14, 2019
How far did Nirmala Sitharaman’s Budget advance the goal set by the Economic Survey?Subscriber Only
July 07, 2019 00:35 IST
The government has chosen to do incremental reforms. The 13 economists — all Indians or of Indian origin — will be disappointed. So will be many who were rooting for radical reforms.
Sun, Jul 07, 2019
Modi’s slogan of One Nation, One Election is the new distracting tacticSubscriber Only
June 30, 2019 00:51 IST
Mr Narendra Modi successfully fused Pulwama and Balakot. Anyone questioning the intelligence failure in Pulwama (and the tragic loss of 40 lives) was mischievously interpreted as if he was questioning the IAF’s success in Balakot, and labelled an anti-national.
Sun, Jun 30, 2019
The small-g government has failed the big-G governmentSubscriber Only
June 23, 2019 02:50 IST
There is a huge gap between intention and implementation. Why? We are hesitant to say it, but it must be said: within the Government (with a capital G) there is another government (with a small g). It is the small-g government that has failed the big-G government as well as the people.
Sun, Jun 23, 2019
No Finance Minister (FM) starts on a clean slateSubscriber Only
June 15, 2019 23:51 IST
The slate is always full of writing — some helpful, some harmless, some a headache and some a hindrance!
Sun, Jun 16, 2019Journalism of Courage
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