The food security bill that aims to feed 800 million Indians is a sham hammered into existence by the Congress party eyeing the poor as a big vote base. Blinded by the greed of narrow political gains the ordinance is just symbolic and also anachronistic. I have no doubt billions of tax money will be…
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Indias Budget: One View
The following is a personal interpretation of how India’s budget presented by finance minister P Chidambaram could have read: “The going has been good, honorable speaker madam. The government kitty is flush due to income tax (from the hard working salaried middle class) and indirect taxes (that burden the poor the most) collections. Thus, we…
Siddharth Srivastava 