Who said this? “India needs investment, not disinvestment.” It was none other than Palaniappan Chidambaram, while criticising the NDA’s privatisation efforts when he was jobless and had turned a columnist for the Indian Express in the early part of the last decade. Who said this? “We must raise the tax revenue to defend (the expected aggregate decline of resources). I know many people won’t like this. But, I think, I can summon the courage to make the statement… you must be prepared to pay higher tax rates, especially the rich must be prepared to pay higher tax.”