It is interesting to see how Brinda Karat’s mandatory appearance on NDTV 24x7 is handled. She came and protested loudly about how it was a budget for the khaas admi, not the aam admi. She raised specific issues which neither Prannoy Roy nor Vikram Chandra countered or engaged with. The latter only made a lame comment about how nobody was happy with this Budget. Ms Karat said her set piece and went away.