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GST! A five-year (h)itch!!

An oft used expression from the past ‘The seven-year itch’, may look an awful anachronism. In that background, five years is almost an eon....

“Magic Mirror, on the wall, who *now*, is the fairest one of all?”

The period since 2004 has seen merely two prime ministers helm the nation; and just four finance ministers presented nineteen full budgets. Is there a...

Why a separate budget for agriculture?

Tamil Nadu has announced the presentation of a separate budget for agriculture. This has been demanded by Dr S Ramadoss of PMK. The need for...

The white paper can be really white

  In welcoming the appointment of Dr Palanivel Thiagarajan (PT) as TN Finance Minister (IE June issue), we expressed the hope for a drastic change...

Likes and dislikes

Many years ago, at an inter-collegiate contest, I wrote an essay on 'If I were the Finance Minister of India.' I wrote that the Income...

South still elusive for the BJP

For 15 years, during 1999-2014, DMK was a vital constituent of the Central government. The considerable number of MPs - 12 in 1999, 16...

Welcome prudence in fiscal management

It was a refreshing contrast: the Tamil Nadu budget for 2019-20 broke away from the tradition set by Dravidian parties of announcing fresh sops...

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