A few days before the presentation of the annual Budget, there’s always the ‘halwa eating’ ceremony at the finance ministry when officials eat the delicious sweet and citizens watch. Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman may have been conspicuously left out of some meetings between the Modi government and captains of industry, but she recently had her very own photo-op. Cameras captured her unveiling the traditional halwa in the finance ministry and distributing it to her ministry colleagues.
Sharp-suited MoS finance Anurag Thakur was seen being served the first plate, leaving feminists asking if the first full time woman finance minister was being consigned to the kitchen? With India’s growth rate plunging to record lows, citizens are saying while we Indians love gajar Read More
