Hosts Surya Prakash and Pavan Srinath dissect the Government of India's 2021 Budget, the first annual exercise since the COVID-19 pandemic started ravaging the world.

India and the world is going through unprecedented times, to say the least. India's GDP contracted by 7-8% in 2020-21, and we hope to get the Indian economy back to where we were before the pandemic. While the GDP may recover in another year, the pandemic has been deeply unequal about how it has affected people. Millions of salaried jobs and daily wage jobs have been lost, and are only recovering slowly. Government taxes and incomes have taken a big hit. Setbacks in our health, education, and social systems may set us back by many years.

Against all this, what choices has the Government of India made in its biggest announcement of policy and priorities for the upcoming year? Surya and Pavan put the budget's mind-bending numbers in context, and offer their analysis of the budget announcements, on Episode 86 of the Thale-Harate Kannada Podcast.

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