P Chidambaram is former Finance minister of India.
December 08, 2002 00:00 IST
I have reached the conclusion, startling as it may seem, that there is no living person by the name of Narendra Modi. He is an invention. He...
December 01, 2002 00:00 IST
After observing the behaviour of political parties during the last few months, I have reached the sad conclusion that political support for ...
November 24, 2002 00:00 IST
Last week, I had commented on the report of the Task Force on Direct Taxes headed by Dr Vijay Kelkar. For want of space, I could not include...
November 17, 2002 00:00 IST
The Task Force on Direct Taxes, headed by Dr. Vijay Kelkar, has submitted its report. It is a working paper, says the Finance Minister. It i...
November 10, 2002 00:00 IST
Come November 14, India will observe Children’s Day. It is a touching tribute to the memory of the first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Neh...
November 03, 2002 00:00 IST
It's official. Dr Bimal Jalan, Governor, Reserve Bank of India, is a person of extreme caution. Like Sanjay Bangar and his innings in Jalan&...
October 27, 2002 00:00 IST
Imagine you are a foreigner, say, French or German. Imagine you have been given $100 million to invest abroad. Why would you choose India?In...
October 20, 2002 00:00 IST
When a President dines with a Prime Minister, privately, that should not be news. But this is India, and it was news, and for a strange reas...
October 13, 2002 01:42 IST
If a man is known by the company he keeps, I suppose that a nation can be known by the issues that engage its attention. The United States&#...
October 06, 2002 00:00 IST
Do we have one government or two or more than two? Listening to the numerous voices emanating from it, it seems that the current Central Gov...
September 29, 2002 00:00 IST
Yet another outrageous and condemnable act of violence has been perpetrated in the name of religion. The attack on the Swaminayaran temple i...
September 22, 2002 00:00 IST
The irony did not escape most observers. In the same week that the Cabinet derailed disinvestment, the Planning Commission submitted a repor...
September 15, 2002 00:00 IST
It is an election to a State legislature, yet it is not like any other election. Since Jammu & Kashmir is a special case, the elections to t...
September 08, 2002 00:00 IST
The debate on disinvestment has acquired a new farcical dimension, thanks to Defence Minister George Fernandes. No one knows what his real p...
September 01, 2002 00:00 IST
For many years, the Election Commission was a silent presence. Electoral rolls were revised, election schedules announced, candidates filed ...
August 25, 2002 00:00 IST
For nearly four decades, foreign exchange was a taboo subject for most Indians. Governments guarded the foreign exchange reserve as if it wa...
August 18, 2002 00:00 IST
In 1947, five young men of very modest means got together, pulled out a 40-page note book and wrote down the rules and regulations of a new ...
August 09, 2002 00:00 IST
Why is India regarded as a poor country? The answer is obvious. Because a large number of Indians are ‘poor’ in an economic sense....
March 01, 2000 00:00 IST
It is difficult to believe that it is the same Government -- and the same Ministry of Finance -- which presented the Economic Survey (1999...
February 28, 1999 00:00 IST
The first hour of the Budget speech seemed like the unveiling of an election manifesto.Let me list the features of the Budget which are w...
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