The panellists broadly agreed on what ails the economy: weak consumption, low demand and MSMEs that are unable to grow and generate jobs. And on the need for the following steps: Another Budget, another shower of extravagant praise from prominent industrialists and celebrities. It’s a running joke by now. But a way to gauge what people really think is to see whether a Budget addresses what they previously said it should. Consider Fortune India’s Budget Roundtable 2025 , where a diverse group of corporates, academics and representatives of political parties – including me and a BJP spokesperson – discussed, quite...