Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman. | PTI Bold, historic and reforming. These are some of the keywords that dominated the news coverage of India’s first pandemic budget. While The Printeditor Shekhar Gupta said that the Budget marked a shift in the “Right” direction, India Today’s Rajdeep Sardesai said that informed opinion believed that it was the “best Budget” . Calling the budget a “bold leap”, the editorial board of the Indian Expressconcluded that the “government means business”. The narrative around the Union Budget showed a complete disconnect from what ordinary people expect not just from the government but also the media.