Invitation to Inflation and Inequity

These Budgety Days. . .
Romesh Thapar DURING the past week, with national budgeting on the agenda, we have been fed on a steady diet of reactions from that mysterious being known as 'the common man'. The 'reactions' are, in fact, the concoctions of corrupt politicians, moronic news reporters, and a host of gossips whose commentaries on the present situation prove only one fact: that economic understanding is certainly not one of our national plus points.