Shashi Tharoor was missing some poetry in the 2024 interim budget speech so he recited one… but in Hindi.
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00:00Due to the burden of debt, the common man has become poor, expensive to eat and drink, and an expensive house.
00:11Golden nation, Gulzar Shalimar Hume
00:16That feels the light and sings when the dawn
00:31Even in the latest interim budget speech, the finance minister spent a lot of time celebrating the success of GST, amassing a lot of revenues.
00:40But her speech was not punctuated this year with any verses or shairis, not even from Thiruvallavar.
00:46So I prompted a poet friend of mine to put the plight of the suffering it caused the aam aadmi into verse.
00:52And I'd like to share it with her to italicize the really sad state of the Indian economy from the point of view of a common man like this.
01:03Due to the burden of debt, the common man has become poor, expensive to eat and drink, and an expensive house.
01:10I'd like to tell you about the lack of a minister's budget.
01:14Let's start with the head and go to the feet.
01:18Some of the candidates have big bungalows.
01:24From the hair to the feet, we have become bald.
01:29I know you don't dye your hair, but a lot of people do.
01:33Dyeing your hair has become so expensive that you're afraid to put it on.
01:37Listen to the price of the glasses.
01:39My eyes are crying.
01:41Put less on. Toothpaste has become expensive.
01:44We've started cutting our hair now.
01:48My hands and feet are bursting without cream.
01:53The collar of my shirt is torn.
01:55I can't buy it if I don't have wings.
01:58GST is so high, I can't give it.
02:02Someone was asking, how do we lose weight?
02:06Since the price of vegetables has increased, we eat less.
02:13They showed me a lollipop and left.
02:17This time too, they sang their own song and left.
02:22How did they think that the people would forgive again?
02:27How did they think that the people would forgive again?
02:31This time, in the elections, the people will clean up from the roots.
02:39That, sir, is applied to the common man.
02:42Others who can, are voting with their feet.
02:45The external affairs minister told parliament
02:48that over 16 lakh Indians gave up their citizenship,
02:51including 2,25,000 in 2022 alone.
02:55High net worth Indians are leaving the country
02:58because of this government's tax terrorism.
03:007,500 millionaires left India in 2022.
03:046,500 last year.
03:06They have taken their resources to invest them abroad
03:09and not in our country,
03:11where private investment is seriously done under the India government.