The same way I tally every kilo of cashew before shipment, I cannot understand how a major bridge's cost is announced in crores one month and revised upwards the next without a single page of the original estimate being made public. Last week, while noting down my granddaughter's school fee in my expense register, I realised her bus fare has risen twice in six months — yet the official inflation figure stays at a shaantham 4 per cent. If a humble export clerk can maintain a thirty-eight-year ledger without a paisa missing, surely a nation can keep its infrastructure accounts in order without this constant puthiya kettidaanam.
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