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Nirmala Sitharaman mentions Harappan seals in Budget, Twitter wonders if she has deciphered the script

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Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday mentioned Harappan-era seals in her Budget speech, claiming one of them contained the word “sreni”. Twitter soon erupted in amusement as few users pointed out that the Harappan script had not yet been deciphered. Sitharaman said in her speech to drive home the point how entrepreneurship has always been there in the country. A user wrote: " It's a history of finance budget."