Pranab Mukherjee’s budget speech for 2012: a percentage play


Analyzing the word map of theĀ  finance minister's budget speech turns out to be a rather dull and boring exercise. What jumps out at you is the word "percent". In fact, the entire budget speech can be summarized into four words - Propose, Duty, Percent, Crore. Coalition dharma or electoral compulsion?

Dinesh Trivedi’s railway budget as a word map


Last year, I had done word maps of Mamata Banerjee's railway budgets. This year, given the tamasha that was played out as an aftermath of the Railway budget presented by Dinesh Trivedi (who has since been forced to resign), it would be interesting to see what his focus was on, by creating a similar word … Continue reading Dinesh Trivedi’s railway budget as a word map