I had a bizarre encounter with our corner shopwallah the other day, which went something like this. ‘Ayee?’ (Has it come?) ‘Abhi nahin. Kal try karna.’ (Not yet. Try tomorrow.) So I did, and he still didn’t have it. This continued for several days, our conversation going from business-like,...

Cyril Almeida sifts through the complexities of the budget and discusses its implications.   For all their importance, budgets are terribly dull and boring. Page after page of numbers and statistics, paragraph after paragraph of mind-numbing prose, it truly is an event for the policy wonks. This year...