Post-budget ritual reflects divisions in media on form of protest
(WorldNews India)

The rite of the Union budget ends with a celebratory dinner: usually a chin-wagging session where editors and beat reporters clink a glass of wine and share a joke or an anecdote with the finance minister and the close cabal of officials involved in the gruelling exercise. The budget is done and dusted; everyone has pored over the minutiae of the budget documents, gleaned the facts, mashed the numbers, and informed readers about the government´s intent and how the new tax proposals will hurt their pockets. But this time, the bonhomie at the dinner organised by the finance ministry at the Longchamps - the rooftop restaurant of the Taj Mahal Palace on Lodhi Road - was marred by a boycott by...