P. Chidambaram

P. CHIDAMBARAM is a former Union Minister of Finance and Home in the Government of India. Currently, he is a Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha) and heads the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs. He is an eminent lawyer practising in the Supreme Court of India and various high courts. A public intellectual and author, collections of his essays in 2016 and 2017 were published to wide acclaim under the titles Standing Guard and Fearless in Opposition, respectively.

P. Chidambaram writes a weekly column on economy, politics, social issues, foreign policy and contemporary affairs in The Indian Express, a leading newspaper. He is a member of the Indian National Congress, the country’s oldest political party, and a trustee of the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation.