Okonomos- Vintage Chidambaram
Business Standard Columnist T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan comments on P Chidambaram's Fringe Benefit Tax (Announced as part of Indian union budget 2005-06).

"In 1988, when he was a minister of state of home, P Chidambaram brought in the defamation bill. Such a bill was needed, but not in the way he did it.
In 1997, he brought in the Minimum Alternate Tax, of which the same can be said. Ditto for the Securities Transaction Tax last year.
And now comes the Fringe Benefits Tax (FBT). As with the other things, the idea is all right but the execution is pure Chidambaram — unsound because it is so imperious. "

There is no dearth for columnist in the top four Indian financial dailies (ET, Business Standard, Financial Express and Business Line). But most of them are sector specific.

There are big names though, who write on a plethora of areas. Here are a few names, The Times Group's Swaminathan S. Anklesaria Aiyar- Swaminomics, Business Standard's TN Ninan -Weekend Ruminations & T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan and not till long ago I did read Financial Express Dr Baru's columns.