India, July 9 -- Modi would be damned if taxes on the middle class were to be raised. It would equally be damned for taxing the emerging category of the Highest High Net Worth Individuals (HHNIs), comprising a minuscule universe of 8,000 people. The fact is that even the rich have not been touched by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in Budget 2019-20. Only the super rich have been asked to shell out more. This was the most inoffensive way of conforming to Chanakya's prescription that "taxes should be collected the way a bee collects honey, without damaging the flower." So, how do we term "Sithanomics" for inconveniencing only the poor-rich people, who comprise 0.01 per cent of the population, to raise the much-needed resources for the ...