When Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha stands up for his Budget speech in Parliament tomorrow, he’ll face a nation that waits his words with trepidation rather than hope. The wild jubilation of 1999-00’s dotcom boom is over, the global economy is struggling to work itself out of recession, India, which was supposedly growing 6 per cent plus for the last two years, actually turns out to have inched up by 4 per cent and 5.4 per cent, respectively during the last fiscal and this.