Before parting ....
BUDGET speeches are usually long and boring except for the tax proposals. If the tax proposals are announced in the beginning of the speech, nobody will bother to listen to the whole text. However Finance Ministers or their speech writers try to spice up the speeches with a joke here and a quote there. Generally towards the end of their hard labour, Finance Ministers tend to become emotional and they would end their speeches with profound wisdom drawn from anywhere between Vedas to bollywood films. TIOL has compiled some of these bits of wisdom staring from the first post independence budget speech to Pranab babu's latest budget.