pranab mukherjee

March 2020
Covid-19: How the cookie crumbles

Covid-19: How the cookie crumbles

Covid-19 may force finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman to change the Budget maths. Look what happened to P. Chidambaram’s 2008-09 Budget projections when the global financial crisis hit in 2008.

December 2018
August 2012
April 2011
The pragmatist and reformer

The pragmatist and reformer

Former President Pranab Mukherjee died on Monday. Here’s our earlier story on how, as finance minister during the UPA regime, he believed that reforms were about calibrated changes, not big-bang ones.

March 2011