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P Chidambaram
P Chidambaram is former Finance minister of India.
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Politics catches up, India lags behindSubscriber Only
June 08, 2003 00:00 IST
One in seven persons in the world today was born and lives in India. That fact should give India a permanent seat in the Security Council, b...
Sun, Jun 08, 2003It’s the silly season of policy statementsSubscriber Only
June 01, 2003 00:00 IST
Is it the beginning of the silly season? When the silly season begins, it never rains — it pours. I refer to the election fever that ha...
Sun, Jun 01, 2003Wake up to the state of StatesSubscriber Only
May 18, 2003 00:00 IST
Bibek Debroy and Laveesh Bhandari could have been addressing the hearing impaired. Everything that they said — at the India Today-organ...
Sun, May 18, 2003Women’s Bill: No reservations, just biasSubscriber Only
May 11, 2003 00:00 IST
Two men let us down very badly last week. The first was the Prime Minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee. He led us to believe, over the past two mo...
Sun, May 11, 2003Saving’s not what it used to beSubscriber Only
May 04, 2003 00:00 IST
When I wrote my column last week, I did not know (although I should have remembered) that the RBI’s ‘Statement on Monetary and Cre...
Sun, May 04, 2003A tax by any other name…Subscriber Only
April 27, 2003 00:00 IST
Inflation is a bugbear to all consumers and to most governments. There are, however, some who love inflation. Among these are manufacturers ...
Sun, Apr 27, 2003The remains of the Iraq warSubscriber Only
April 20, 2003 00:00 IST
To the north of present-day Baghdad are two centres which were home to one of the first civilisations in human history — Mesopotamia an...
Sun, Apr 20, 2003Vietnam a blot, Iraq a scarSubscriber Only
April 13, 2003 00:00 IST
There was nothing surprising about Day 21. When the drama began on Day 1, the question was not how will it end, but when will it end? As it ...
Sun, Apr 13, 2003Well done Mr Jaitley, now move onSubscriber Only
April 06, 2003 00:00 IST
We have come a long way since 1991-92. In many respects, therefore, Commerce Minister Arun Jaitley’s task was easy, but even easy tasks...
Sun, Apr 06, 2003Bush, NDA Govt: Same differenceSubscriber Only
March 30, 2003 00:00 IST
The brutal killing of 24 Pandits in Kashmir has brought to the fore, once again, the diabolical nature of terrorism and the dangerous times ...
Sun, Mar 30, 2003Crop of gloom: A rural taleSubscriber Only
March 23, 2003 00:00 IST
In a column that was published some weeks ago I had pointed out the irony of consumers grudging a modest price increase in wheat or rice or ...
Sun, Mar 23, 2003Jaswant’s forgotten fieldsSubscriber Only
March 16, 2003 00:00 IST
It seems that I am one of the few who remember — and continue to write about — Finance Minister Jaswant Singh’s Budget for 20...
Sun, Mar 16, 2003Mr FM’s empty bag of tricksSubscriber Only
March 09, 2003 00:00 IST
Finance Minister Jaswant Singh has, I readily concede, proved himself to be a clever tactician. It is his claim to be a magician as well tha...
Sun, Mar 09, 2003Restrained applause for cautious budgetSubscriber Only
March 02, 2003 00:00 IST
After the terrible disappointment of last year’s budget, it is a matter of satisfaction that the NDA government has returned to the pat...
Sun, Mar 02, 2003Allies or foes? The glue that binds allSubscriber Only
February 23, 2003 00:00 IST
A coalition government is formed when a number of parties, each having won a significant number of seats, hammer together a majority that ea...
Sun, Feb 23, 2003No more BJP clones please, we’re IndiansSubscriber Only
February 16, 2003 00:00 IST
Two weeks ago, at a meeting of the Congress Working Committee (CWC), Kamal Nath, one of the general secretaries of the party, gave a lesson ...
Sun, Feb 16, 2003Dabhol in the time of BudgetSubscriber Only
February 09, 2003 00:00 IST
When he took over as Finance Minister, Jaswant Singh said that he was, by nature, a ‘‘cautious saukar’’. The signals ema...
Sun, Feb 09, 2003Try reshuffling track recordSubscriber Only
February 02, 2003 00:00 IST
Delhi is the eternal battleground. More wars have been fought in and around Delhi than any other Indian city. Last week, several wars contin...
Sun, Feb 02, 2003Relishing the business of powerSubscriber Only
January 26, 2003 00:00 IST
When a hero emerges out of the blue, I am thrilled. I refer to Mr Jairus Banaji, described as an Oxford-based economic historian and his co...
Sun, Jan 26, 2003Shivering in birthday breezeSubscriber Only
January 19, 2003 00:00 IST
What is it about birthdays that encourages Indian political leaders to indulge in unacceptable behaviour? As far as I am concerned, birthday...
Sun, Jan 19, 2003King George of the Kargil fameSubscriber Only
January 12, 2003 00:00 IST
The Ministry of Defence is a hallowed place. Defence expenditure is a sacred cow. Mr George Fernandes regards himself as the high priest. Pe...
Sun, Jan 12, 2003Wanted: Sreedharans, not TogadiasSubscriber Only
January 05, 2003 00:00 IST
Two weeks ago, I had pointed out that in the four quarters of 2001-2002, each one of the three sectors that make up the economy had recorded...
Sun, Jan 05, 2003Mr PM, your wishes my wishes for 2003Subscriber Only
December 29, 2002 00:00 IST
A strange peace has descended on the country. It may have something to do with Prime Minister A.B. Vajpayee’s birthday. Or the inaugura...
Sun, Dec 29, 2002Bye Annus HorribilisSubscriber Only
December 22, 2002 00:00 IST
The year 2002 is drawing to a close. Looking back, it was a horrible year, and it has left me quite despondent. There have been horrible yea...
Sun, Dec 22, 200212/13 vs 9/11: Don’t even startSubscriber Only
December 15, 2002 00:00 IST
I write this on Friday, December 13, 2002. It is the first anniversary of the attack on Parliament House. The Americans call their day of aw...
Sun, Dec 15, 2002Journalism of Courage
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