SILLY POINT
humour mk kaw
Monkey business
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the peak of the budget fever, someone asked P K Kaul, former Cabinet
Secretary, who had also been Finance Secretary, “Is it true that Finance
Ministry officials are locked up in North Block for several days on
budget duty?”
Kaul
gave a serious reply, as befitted an ex-senior bureaucrat speaking on
national television. Had I been there, I could not have resisted the
temptation of referring to the monkey population of North Block. I do
not think the process of budget preparation will be complete without
elaborating upon their contribution.
Imagine
a Deputy Secretary of the Tax Research Unit, totally engrossed in
calculations of excise duty on tiny industries or whatever. He sips
uncountable cups of coffee, while cogitating on the repercussions of
this rate or that. Nature decrees that sooner or later, those Yamunas of
hot beverage will be converted into something he will want to rid
himself of. He gets up from his chair, still muttering to himself and
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