The dilemma of departure
Column by M.J. Akbar What is happening to Pranab Mukherjee is cruel but not unusual. It happens to Popes, editors and chief executives as much as to former finance ministers. The Vatican does not advertise the More...
Mukherjee to step down as finance minister on June 26
India’s Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee is seen in New Delhi November 10, 2009. REUTERS/B Mathur/Files India’s Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee is seen in New Delhi November 10, 2009. REUTERS/B More...
Time for another government
Column by M.J. Akbar – There are enough saints to fill a thick register, but few who etch an impression on the collective memory. St Augustine, who lived between 354 and 430, has left such an indelible mark More...
Should the best man remain a bachelor?
Column by M.J.Akbar - Margins cannot determine the fate of the text. At the moment, the story of the next elections to Rashtrapati Bhavan is in neither array nor disarray: it is blank, because the principal political More...
The Whiff of 1969
Column MJ Akbar - There is a straight connect between the knee and the tongue: Through the jerk. When a political knee jerks, it smashes into your chin, cuts your tongue and produces garble that you can regret More...
The balance between give and take
Column by M.J. Akbar – It must be a bit galling for Mrs Sonia Gandhi to kowtow before a politician who sabotaged her personal bid to lead a Congress coalition government in 1997, and then minced her son Rahul’s More...
Sanctions against Iran: India refuses to cooperate with US
India’s Finance Minister, Pranab Mukherjee, conveyed this Sunday that Indian government would continue to purchase Iranian oil despite sanctions laid by the US and EU. On December 31, 2011, US President Barack More...
PC fate now depends on SC verdict on probe
The bitter infighting between the two senior UPA Ministers — Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee and Home Minister P Chidambaram — reached Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s doorsteps on Monday as she stepped More...
India can grow by nine percent through PPP: Pranab
Indian Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee Kolkata (IANS) – Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has said India has the potential to achieve nine percent growth, provided public-private partnership (PPP) More...
No more tax-free zones: FM
Union Minister for Finance Pranab Mukherjee New Delhi (PTI) – Union Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee on Saturday said there would be no more tax-free zones in the country. Renewal of tax free zone status More...
