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Consumption took centre stage, while some sectors got more attention than others. But Nirmala Sitharaman’s budget failed to enthuse the markets.
I have been actively tracking the budget for over four decades. In my college days, we would eagerly await Nani Palkhivala’s budget analysis. The eminent lawyer and jurist would lucidly dissect the budget and make it easy to understand for youngsters. One of his famous quotes still rings loud: “When government spends more than it gets, and labour gets more than it gives, the empty feeling in your pocket is inflation.”
On Friday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi dropped a hint on what to expect in Budget 2025-26 when he invoked Lakshmi—the goddess of wealth—to bless India’s middle class and the …
