⚡ WHEN language BETRAYS VACUUM

Budgets are supposed to reveal intent, clarity, and direction.
Instead, this one revealed something else entirely: intellectual exhaustion.

When Nirmala Sitharaman announced a “coconut promotion scheme to enhance competitiveness in coconut production”, the country didn’t hear reform. It heard word salad.

Promotion.
Production.
Productivity.

Different words. Same sentence. Same emptiness.

At a moment when india needs bold thinking, the budget delivered circular language masquerading as policy.

1️⃣ “COMPETITIVE COCONUT” IS NOT AN ECONOMIC STRATEGY

Competitiveness against whom?
On what metric?
At what scale?
For which market?

None answered.

Replacing old trees with new saplings is basic agricultural maintenance, not a grand economic intervention. Dressing routine horticulture in corporate jargon doesn’t make it visionary — it makes it unserious.

This isn’t reform.
It’s filler.

2️⃣ WHEN BUZZWORDS REPLACE THINKING

The budget is littered with lines that sound important but mean nothing measurable:

• Promote

• Enhance

• Encourage

• Facilitate

• Enable

• 
  

Not one of these words tells farmers:

• What changes tomorrow

• How income improves

• Where risk is reduced

Policy language exists to reduce uncertainty. This budget increased it.

3️⃣ india IS IN A CRUCIAL DECADE — THIS BUDGET ACTED LIKE IT WAS NOT

Globally:

• Supply chains are shifting

• Energy geopolitics are exploding

• Automation is disrupting jobs

• Climate stress is accelerating

• 
  

Domestically:

• Youth unemployment is real

• Urban infrastructure is collapsing

• Rural distress hasn’t vanished

• 
  

And the response?

A competitive coconut scheme.

The disconnect isn’t just embarrassing — it’s dangerous.

4️⃣ THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN GOVERNANCE BECOMES PR-FIRST

The budget reads like it was written for headlines, not outcomes.

Short lines.
Catchy phrases.
Zero structural reform.

It gives tv studios something to read aloud — but gives the economy nothing to stand on.

Serious governments explain trade-offs.
Weak ones hide behind adjectives.

5️⃣ FORGETTABLE IS THE WORST CRIME A BUDGET CAN COMMIT

Bad budgets at least provoke debate.
Bold budgets provoke resistance.

This one provokes nothing.

No economist will cite it.
No student will study it.
No reform will trace its roots to it.

It will disappear quietly — like a speech no one remembers five minutes later.

6️⃣ INCOMPETENCE IS NO LONGER AN ACCUSATION — IT’S A PATTERN

This isn’t about coconuts.

It’s about a governing class that has run out of ideas but refuses to admit it. A system where repetition replaces innovation, and recycling words replaces solving problems.

At a time when india needed clarity, courage, and competence, it got cosmetic schemes and circular sentences.

🧨 FINAL WORD: history WILL NOT BE KIND TO EMPTY WORDS

Budgets are judged not by how they sound on announcement day, but by what they change years later.

This one will change nothing.

And when future crises demand answers, this moment will be remembered not for what it did — but for how little it even tried to do.

india deserved leadership.

It got linguistics.