Indians hope that the budget is good for them and they can share sweets. But every year, for a small group of people, the finance minister turns into a Halwaai. #Budget2023
The Halwa ceremony is the traditional start of the budget process. More than 100 officials of the Finance Ministry, will be locked up (Big Boss style) in the Budget printing press till the Budget speech is over.
Last year due to Omicron, finance minister didn't prepare the halwa on a kadhai.
Instead, she distributed sweets to all the people involved before locking them up inside the finance ministry... True lockdown stylz.
This year the finance minister was in a good mood - maybe we have some good news in store for us. #Budget2023
The final budget that is read out, is quite verbose and runs into pages.
India's 1st FM Shanmukham Chetty carried his papers in a leather briefcase. That tradition continued till 2019, when Nirmala Sitharaman used a Bhai-Katha.
The 2021 budget was the first to go paperless.
The word budget itself comes for a French word 'Bougette' which means little bag.
The first budget box was used by William Gladstone in 1860.
Gladstone is said to have asked for a box as he was known to give long speeches and required it to keep his papers.
UK changed the box only in 2011 as the old box had become shabby.
Rishi Sunak, professional Ashish Nehra Doppleganger and the current PM of UK had given the budget in 2021 with the red briefcase.
@IWTKQuiz x @iimb_official teaming up to bring, not one, but TWO quizzes at the Unmaad Festival 🥳
IIM Bangalore is hosting Unmaad, India’s biggest B-School cultural fest with tonnes of activities and competitions from cooking to dancing to quizzing!
We will be hosting 2 quizzes at the event both online and offline.
1️⃣ The Galactic Geniuses - General Open Quiz
🗓️ Online Prelims: 5th Feb 2023
🗓️ Offline Prelims: 26th Feb 2023
🏆 GRAND FINALE: 26th Feb, IIM-B Campus
You might think these are the names of shots by Surya Kumar Yadav..
But the right answer is that these are all games invented by one man - Erno Rubik. A thread🧵
Rubik was born in the basement of a Budapest hospital, which had become an air raid shelter.
As a child, he loved to draw. He studied architecture at the Technical University of Budapest,then attended the College of Applied Arts. He became obsessed with geometric patterns.
In 1974, he was in his bedroom at his parents house. For some reason, he tried to put together 8 cubes, so that they could stick together and also move around.
He made cubes of wood, then drilled a hole in them to link them together.
On July 20th 1969, Neil Armstrong took a giant step for mankind by landing on the moon.
But before going to the moon - Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins were worried.. What if they don't come back and how will their families take care of themselves?
This was the kind of situation for which a responsible person plans by take out a life insurance policy.
Unfortunately for the astronauts, given how public their mission was and the dangers involved, an insurance would cost them a fortune.
The solution - insurance postcards.
The 3 astronauts were famous and people really wanted their autographs. There was demand for 'Covers' - envelopes signed by astronauts and postmarked on important dates.
In October 2013, on the eve of what would be his final test series as a player for India, @sachin_rt took part in his final Ranji Trophy game against Haryana.
This game was to take place in a quaint little town Lahli.
The teams were littered with current and future India internationals, but Sachin Tendulkar was obviously a big draw.
The whole of Lahli and surrounding areas of Rohtak were interested in going to the stadium and watch Sachin Tendulkar.
Sanjeev Verma was one among of them.
He would drag his young daughter, who had a passion for cricket to the game.
The game saw Sachin Tendulkar anchor a tricky chase of 240 with an unbeaten 79.
He signed off from Ranji Trophy on the shoulders of his Mumbai teammates.