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P Chidambaram
P Chidambaram is former Finance minister of India.
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Govt as your delivery boySubscriber Only
November 30, 2003 00:00 IST
When this piece is published, the dust and din of the election campaign would have settled in the States of Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Ch...
Sun, Nov 30, 2003This pace, make it a habitSubscriber Only
November 23, 2003 00:00 IST
Gravitas, a gravelly voice and deliberate silence have worked well for my friend Jaswant Singh, the Finance Minister. But even Mr Singh must...
Sun, Nov 23, 2003Blues in brick & mortarSubscriber Only
November 16, 2003 00:00 IST
I recall the old adage ‘Time is money’. In India, thanks to an archaic system of governance ‘‘more time is more money.&...
Sun, Nov 16, 2003Lanka: That sinking feelingSubscriber Only
November 09, 2003 00:00 IST
If we have a troubled neighbour on the northern border, our neighbour on the southern border has plunged itself into a major constitutional ...
Sun, Nov 09, 2003Our other neighbour in the northSubscriber Only
November 02, 2003 00:00 IST
Our neighbour, Nepal, is in acute distress. Nepal is a small country with a population of about 24 million and an area of approximately 147,...
Sun, Nov 02, 2003Law & commerce: And the twain shall meetSubscriber Only
October 26, 2003 00:00 IST
SEBI, TRAI, TAMP, SERC, MRTP — what have these in common? They are the new regulators in a liberal and competitive economy. Many more a...
Sun, Oct 26, 2003October Revolution, 2003Subscriber Only
October 19, 2003 00:00 IST
How many in this century remember V I Lenin? Lenin believed and declared that two ‘E’s were imperative for the building of a moder...
Sun, Oct 19, 2003Reforms for reforms’ sakeSubscriber Only
October 12, 2003 00:00 IST
We have heard of the dictum ‘Art for Art’s sake’. We have seen, and continue to see, ‘Ministers for Ministers’ sake...
Sun, Oct 12, 2003An attack seeks answersSubscriber Only
October 05, 2003 00:00 IST
Terrorism nearly claimed the life of my good friend, the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, Mr Chandrababu Naidu. The attempt on his life des...
Sun, Oct 05, 2003No Lakshman rekha in Ram Rajya?Subscriber Only
September 28, 2003 00:00 IST
On September 21, 2001, in a historic judgement, the Supreme Court of India declared: ‘‘The Constitution prevails over the will of ...
Sun, Sep 28, 2003Celebrate Cancun, but with cautionSubscriber Only
September 21, 2003 00:00 IST
Arun Jaitley, the Commerce Minister, has a neat, legal mind. Before he went to Cancun, he had identified the three possible results of the m...
Sun, Sep 21, 2003Raining on the economySubscriber Only
September 14, 2003 00:00 IST
Finance Minister Jasw-ant Singh has broken his vow of silence to claim that there is a ‘feel good’ factor sweeping the country. Th...
Sun, Sep 14, 2003Stem this Alien NationSubscriber Only
September 07, 2003 00:00 IST
I can fill this column — nay, the whole page — with names of Muslim men and women, all Indians, who have achieved distinction in d...
Sun, Sep 07, 2003First, liberalise the attitudeSubscriber Only
August 31, 2003 00:00 IST
The item was tucked away in the inside pages. We have yet another committee and the ever-willing Mr N K Singh will now advise the Government...
Sun, Aug 31, 2003Waking up to WTOSubscriber Only
August 24, 2003 00:00 IST
One of the persistent myths in developing countries is that developing countries do not need the World Trade Organisation (WTO). And that th...
Sun, Aug 24, 2003Back to the futureSubscriber Only
August 17, 2003 00:00 IST
Just before Saint Valmiki wrote his Ramayana, or contemporaneously, there were other works written by Buddhist scholars on a legendary hero ...
Sun, Aug 17, 2003Neither civil, nor servingSubscriber Only
August 10, 2003 00:00 IST
What is the ‘‘business’’ of a government? The question has been debated over the years, but there is no resolution in si...
Sun, Aug 10, 2003Waiting for the TwoSubscriber Only
August 03, 2003 00:00 IST
All indicators point to a revival of the economy. No one will be happier than the BJP. In the five years that Atal Behari Vajpayee has been ...
Sun, Aug 03, 2003Where life is cheapSubscriber Only
July 27, 2003 00:00 IST
It was an obituary advertisement in the Hindu. It bore the smiling face of a young, handsome man. Head tilted to one side, happy and on top ...
Sun, Jul 27, 2003Millennium goals a dream, time to wake upSubscriber Only
July 20, 2003 00:00 IST
As you read this on a Sunday morning, a child is born in a remote village in Rajasthan. She — a girl child — is one among thousand...
Sun, Jul 20, 2003Ship of state sails on mirage, drowns in sandSubscriber Only
July 13, 2003 00:00 IST
Unlike the Catholic faith, Hinduism does not have a Pope. Nor is there the equivalent of a parish or a jamaat. The practice of Hinduism can...
Sun, Jul 13, 2003Fishing for trivia in a sea full of travailsSubscriber Only
July 06, 2003 00:00 IST
I write this from Thiruvananthapuram in the south-west of India. I have before me copies of two English language mainstream newspapers for t...
Sun, Jul 06, 2003An uneven tale of two people’s republicsSubscriber Only
June 29, 2003 00:00 IST
The newspapers and magazines are full of reports of China — rather of reports comparing China and India. And it seems the winner is Chi...
Sun, Jun 29, 2003If nothing works, ‘whitelist’ competitionSubscriber Only
June 22, 2003 00:00 IST
This is the story of a case that was lost, finally. There are no more appeals or reviews and hence the story can be told. It deserves to be ...
Sun, Jun 22, 2003When slow and steady loses the caseSubscriber Only
June 15, 2003 00:00 IST
Two days ago, I delivered a talk on ‘‘Building a strong economy with ethics’’. It was a lecture in honour of Shri G K Su...
Sun, Jun 15, 2003Journalism of Courage
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