Across the Aisle by P Chidambaram: Big, rich and unaccountable
Just as we will not endure a king as ruler, we ought not to endure a ruler who wants to be king. Many countries have term limits on their President or Prime Minister because he/she could acquire absolute power.
Across the Aisle by P Chidambaram: Happy With My Hinduism
The first line is inscribed on the walls of the United Nations. The poem is believed to reflect the way of life of the Tamils 2,000 years ago and earlier.
Across the Aisle by P Chidambaram: Cricket is a game, not war
The game has changed beyond recognition. For decades, the only version was the 5-day Test — slow, often boring, and with no certainty of a result.
Across the Aisle: Pro-change or no change, writes P Chidambaram
Real change will tear apart walls, stop wars, unite people not of a country alone but of the world, reduce inequalities, banish hunger, and eliminate poverty.
Across the Aisle: Neither victory nor justice, writes P Chidambaram
Surprisingly, the Home Minister did not visit the erstwhile state for over two years after August 2019. Meanwhile, a number of ministers visited the UTs but they were totally boycotted by the people.
Across the Aisle by P Chidambaram: Will South Asia go blind?
Founded in 1951, the IOM recognised the link between migration and economic, social and cultural development as well as the right to freedom of movement.
Across the Aisle: Mindset that harms human rights, writes P Chidambaram
To the best of my knowledge, in the last over three years, the Prime Minister has not uttered a word on the human rights of the prisoners in the Bhima Koregaon case nor on the prolonged delay in even framing the charges, in a
Across the Aisle by P Chidambaram: Whose law, whose order?
Let’s take the last pearl of police wisdom — the charges. There is no offence contained in Section 151 of the CrPC and hence no one can be ‘charged' under that section.
Across the Aisle: The case of the missing jobs, writes P Chidambaram
The CMIE has also calculated the net cumulative increase in total employment between September 2020 and September 2021: it is a measly 44,483.
Across the Aisle: Mischievous and fake crusades, writes P Chidambaram
A secular nation must stamp out such fanaticism whether it is expressed in words or deeds or through subtle means of discrimination.
Across the Aisle: Inequity and injustice writ large, writes P Chidambaram
Entries 63 to 66 posed no problem at all because they dealt with some named institutions, institutions of scientific and technical education funded by the Central government, training institutions and laying down of standards
Across the Aisle: The greater catastrophe, writes P Chidambaram
There has been a lot of debate on availability of hospital beds, oxygen, ventilators, medicines, ambulances, space at burial/cremation grounds and vaccines.
Across the Aisle: No thanks to the government, writes P Chidambaram
Nevertheless, we must welcome the growth of 20.1 per cent because it shows what a country and its people can achieve notwithstanding an insensitive and uncaring government.
Across the Aisle: The grand closing down sale, writes P Chidambaram
Apart from the glaring absence of criteria in the choice of PSUs that have been brought under the NMP, it is not clear what the objectives are. Consider the objective of collecting a “rent” of Rs 1,50,000 crore a year.
Across the Aisle: State of ‘the state of the nation’, writes P Chidambaram
Independence Day celebration is not a colourful spectacle like the Republic Day parade, but the speech makes up for the floats, the march-past and the fly-past.
Across the Aisle: Spare a thought for the economy, writes P Chidambaram
The big leap came when the GDP quadrupled between 1991 and 2014. Since 2014, the rate of growth has been tepid and uneven, thanks to self-inflicted wounds, the external environment and the pandemic.
Across the Aisle | Pandemic: Beyond the economy, writes P Chidambaram
India is doing worse than any of the other G-20 countries in vaccinating the adult population — only 10,81,27,846 people have received two doses of the vaccine against the target of 95-100 crore.
Across the Aisle: Business only with governments, writes P Chidambaram
The four words are in a written communication of the NSO Group, the creator and owner of the malevolent spyware named Pegasus.
Across the Aisle: Government rides a winged horse, writes P Chidambaram
When a storm broke out on snooping on political leaders, judges, journalists, civil rights activists, students, businesspersons and social friends of the ‘chosen people’, it was revealed that owners of thousands of mobile
Across the Aisle: The sovereign looks the other way, writes P Chidambaram
Apart from the sovereign, there are bodies that are regarded as quasi-sovereigns for reasons that I shall not elaborate for want of space. Among them are the Central bank (RBI) and government-owned large banks (e.g., SBI).
Across the Aisle: The ghost takes form and shape, writes P Chidambaram
When this controversy was building, four institutions of India — supposedly watchdogs — failed the country: the media, the Supreme Court, Parliament and the Comptroller & Auditor General (C&AG).
Across the Aisle: We had wings, learned to fly, writes P Chidambaram
There was a political consensus on a State-controlled economy, monopoly or dominance of the public sector, import control, fixed exchange rate, licensing, and a suspicion of markets.
Across the Aisle: Most Severely Mauled Enterprises, writes P Chidambaram
Throughout this terrible phase, I have watched the fortunes of agriculture, micro, small & medium enterprises (MSMEs) and the services sector because, between them, they employ the bulk of the labour force.
Across the Aisle by P Chidambaram: Will we write an elegy for GST?
Enter Ms Nirmala Sitharaman. At every successive meeting of the Council there has been only more conflict, confrontation and, now, almost a complete breakdown of mutual trust and respect.
Across the Aisle: Take responsibility, consult, make plans, writes P Chidambaram
On their part, the state governments and the Opposition must move on. We must clear the mess and achieve the targets set by epidemiologists and health experts.
Across The Aisle: The bird and the worm agree, writes P Chidambaram
The NSO and the local survey — the bird and the worm — saw the same picture on the ground. That is a happy congruence which leaves the Finance Minister and the Chief Economic Adviser locked in an echo chamber.
Across the Aisle: A bigger calamity awaits us, writes P Chidambaram
However, there is one thing about the future that is no longer uncertain. It is about the economic conditions of the people of the country. It will be worse than it should be, inequality will increase and the vast majority of
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