The cutting-chai, Parle-G biscuits and deep-fried samosas offered to important clients at the broker offices in Mumbai’s BSE building tasted extra special that Friday evening as Finance Minister P Chidambaram read out his budget speech 24 years ago.The Union budget of 1997-98 — often called the “dream budget” — reduced personal income tax rates to 30%, lowered corporate tax rates, weeded out various surcharges, paved the way for easier foreign
