Wit Wisdom and Whoop

A largely facetious, partly serious take on the impending Budget 2025 - stated for tomorrow. For a start, one can print the reactions of the various voices to any budget in bulk and simply rehash it every year. They are so predictable that the only person who can say something different is Shashi Tharoor because he will use new words that make you think he is saying something different. The other would be Suhel Seth. He takes on various people right from correcting their grammar and spellings to his hilarious responses in his trademark style. Unlike Shashi, Suhel uses Shakespearian English to insult the political folks, and they don’t even realise they are being insulted. That said here are a few typical comments that will come from the opposition, and these are a collection since the 80’s when I first heard what a budget was. Obviously in 40+ years nothing has changed, and I share my own comments in italics and red against some of the comments. If any budget is not for development an...

  The past few years have been rather contentious, and every subject matter is a trigger point – Covid, Vaccines, Politics of course dominated the discourse. Other subjects like economy, tax policy, security, terror and global issues formed a part. To argue with passion is one thing, to do so with conviction is quite another – especially when one is expressing an opinion and nothing more often. Here is an opinion about opinions. Everybody has an opinion on everything, but to dissect this, our opinions are shaped by the following. Personal Experience Reflected Experience Subject Matter Knowledge Data related to the subject & Information Emotion Be it the Prime Minister or the Private citizen, none can claim to have all of these on an issue to express an opinion that can be taken as the final word. Nobody is at 100%. Decisions are where our opinions get converted as actions. Decisions are based on a combination of the above which as a sum, we believe to be 100%, which in reality ...