Billion Dollar Question

Q: Who is the Finance Minister of India ?
A: (in the decreasing order of shock severity)

Murali Lal Desai
Manmohan Desai
Lalu Prasad Yadav
APJ Abdul Kalam
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Yashwant Sinha
Manmohan Singh
Pranab Mukherjee
K Chidambram
P Chidambram

In case you all are wondering what's going on and is this a KBC sort of thing I am pulling at you, then it is not so.

This was the question a MTV VJ was asking to the various people in "the financial capital" of India - Mumbai, which pays highest amount of taxes in India, and a few section of people didn't even know who is the guy responsible for it.

If you are doubting whether she went about asking this in some Dharavi slum, let me clear your doubts. She asked this to the young, educated crowd in various multiplexes, malls, and perhaps in some reknowed colleges of the city.

I always believed it is the intelligent, enterprising, hard working people, who come from outside of Mumbai, are the ones who are the driving engines of growth of the city. Rest are simply the bogies, reaping the benefits of others' hard work. This confirmed my belief. Left on their own, they will be as ordinary as anybody else.

And a few idiots from "bogies" want to kick out the "engine". That's what you call suicidal tendencies.