Budget reactions show there are two views of India’s future

There is by now an established template of reactions to the Union Budget which is drearily familiar to Indians. The government side is generous in the use of expressions such as ‘bold’, ‘pro-growth’ and ‘pro-people’ to describe the annual exercise. Conversely, the Opposition is never miserly in using terms such as ‘inflationary’, ‘anti-people’ and ‘anti-poor’…Continue Reading