What happened
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has successfully completed a record-breaking 90-minute Budget 2026 speech that managed to dodge the mention of actual budgetary allocations for key schemes. While the opposition scrambled for calculators, the markets celebrated a 'recovery' purely based on the relief that no one understood what happened. The government has clarified that looking for numbers in a Budget is an outdated 20th-century habit that hampers the 'Amrit Kaal' aesthetic.