Moksha M Munoth

Image Source: https://www.deccanherald.com/business/union-budget/union-budget-2026-who-prepares-the-union-budget-3860409 Sri City : The Union Budget 2026 - 27 arrives at a moment of immense economic fragility shaped by both global shocks and domestic structural weaknesses. While the government frames this as a “budget for difficult times,” a closer look reveals a pattern we have already seen from our 3 times running central government - fiscal restraint where expansion is needed, ambitious...

I come from a fairly privileged Indian family and all my life I’ve seen how the women in my family transfer down wealth, it’s gold. That’s my parents’ ‘G’ (pun intended). When my mom got married, her parents sent her to her husband’s home with a certain amount of gold. That’s her safety vault, that’s the safety vault of every woman in our country who isn’t financially independent. Nevertheless, this time when I came back home for my trimester break, I was talking to my sister and she told me...

“Babumoshai zindagi badi honi chahiye, lambi nahi” - Anand My family is a classic Marwadi household, structured, disciplined, and driven by an unspoken rule that money isn’t just currency, it’s survival. We are five: my parents, my two elder sisters, and me, the youngest, the quiet observer, the one who saw things not necessarily as they were told but as they unfolded. My father started his journey at 17, taking charge of a small shop in Chennai. He didn’t have dreams in the traditional...