

CutTheClutter: Budget 2026 isn’t about politics, populism or reform, it’s a hedge in anxious geopolitics
The Finance Minister presented the Union Budget 2026-27 today. In #CutTheClutter Ep 1789, ThePrint Editor-In-Chief Shekhar Gupta explains how, of Nirmala Sitharaman’s 9 budgets so far, this shows the least political anxiety and yet, it is a budget designed for geopolitically anxious times.
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