Move aside, English… Tharoor now recites poems in Hindi

Shashi Tharoor was missing some poetry in the 2024 interim budget speech so he recited one… but in Hindi.

Transcript

00:00Due to the burden of debt, the common man has become poor, expensive to eat and drink, and an expensive house.

00:11Golden nation, Gulzar Shalimar Hume

00:16That feels the light and sings when the dawn

00:31Even in the latest interim budget speech, the finance minister spent a lot of time celebrating the success of GST, amassing a lot of revenues.

00:40But her speech was not punctuated this year with any verses or shairis, not even from Thiruvallavar.

00:46So I prompted a poet friend of mine to put the plight of the suffering it caused the aam aadmi into verse.

00:52And I'd like to share it with her to italicize the really sad state of the Indian economy from the point of view of a common man like this.

01:03Due to the burden of debt, the common man has become poor, expensive to eat and drink, and an expensive house.

01:10I'd like to tell you about the lack of a minister's budget.

01:14Let's start with the head and go to the feet.

01:18Some of the candidates have big bungalows.

01:24From the hair to the feet, we have become bald.

01:29I know you don't dye your hair, but a lot of people do.

01:33Dyeing your hair has become so expensive that you're afraid to put it on.

01:37Listen to the price of the glasses.

01:39My eyes are crying.

01:41Put less on. Toothpaste has become expensive.

01:44We've started cutting our hair now.

01:48My hands and feet are bursting without cream.

01:53The collar of my shirt is torn.

01:55I can't buy it if I don't have wings.

01:58GST is so high, I can't give it.

02:02Someone was asking, how do we lose weight?

02:06Since the price of vegetables has increased, we eat less.

02:13They showed me a lollipop and left.

02:17This time too, they sang their own song and left.

02:22How did they think that the people would forgive again?

02:27How did they think that the people would forgive again?

02:31This time, in the elections, the people will clean up from the roots.

02:39That, sir, is applied to the common man.

02:42Others who can, are voting with their feet.

02:45The external affairs minister told parliament

02:48that over 16 lakh Indians gave up their citizenship,

02:51including 2,25,000 in 2022 alone.

02:55High net worth Indians are leaving the country

02:58because of this government's tax terrorism.

03:007,500 millionaires left India in 2022.

03:046,500 last year.

03:06They have taken their resources to invest them abroad

03:09and not in our country,

03:11where private investment is seriously done under the India government.