New Delhi, Feb. 8 -- One called it a "controlled, pump-priming exercise", another dubbed it "well balanced", while many others were more effusive in their praise, with a chief executive officer even commending the minister for being "very articulate". A budget for a new India, a budget that will trigger consumption demand... virtue upon virtue was showered by our corporate denizens. Mind you, all this was for an interim budget, with a possible shelf-life of no more than a few months. It followed the time-honoured tradition of cheering on a finance minister every time a Union budget is presented. Why, even the 1973 budget by Yashwantrao B. Chavan, considered one of the most anti-industry ever, failed to draw any more than some muted criticis...