Read The Wire's analysis of this year's budget

• Sanjaya Baru, Mister Jaitley's Mid-Course Correction
• MK Venu, Modi Has Managed the Optics, Now Comes the Task of Implementation
• Bharat Dogra: The Poor Badly Needed a Good Budget This Year. Well, They Didn't Get It.
• Vivan Sharan, Three Structural Challenges that the Budget Hopes to Overcome
• Jean Dreze and Reetikha Khera, What One Chart and One Table of Budget Keywords Tell Us About Official Priorities
• Sudha Mahalingam, This Year’s Budget is Low on Energy
• Kiran Bhatty, A Budget that Evades the Real Issues in the Social Sector
• Dipa Sinha, Neglecting Health Expenditure in Favour of the Chimera of Insurance
• Yamini Aiyar, Social Sector Investments in Budget 2016 No Different Than Previous Year
• Saumitra Chaudhuri, Non Tax Revenues Rescue the FRBM Ship
• Sangeeta Barooah-Pisharoty, Activists Reject Jaitley’s Claim of Highest Ever Allocation for MNREGA
• The Wire Staff, No Room for Piketty: Where the Budget Stands on Inequality
• Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar, Employees’ Unions Criticise Budget Plan to Tax Provident Fund

For The Wire's live blog details of the budget as it was presented, please read below

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