As an educator I see so many desi students who feel under pressure to study economics or science, not because they enjoy these subjects but because of the pressure from home. The sundered stages means that the young person studies, then earns, then contemplates, and finally renunciates. There is no connection between the stages. Yashwant Sinha's budget asks that state subsidy of agriculture and the public distribution system of agricultural necessities be put to an end, that regulation of factories that employ less than a thousand workers end, and that the excise tax be excised. Few thought that they would end the social contract that asks that the state attempt to create equality by small steps.
Inequality is now to reign untrammeled.
We heard this in the 1980s. But it was capital given without any regulations and we ended up with empty office space in Boston, indicted criminals on Wall Street and mass flight of U.S. capital to create sweatshops overseas. But now times have changed. It is April. The rest of us have to send our taxes in.