New Delhi, Feb. 1 -- Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented the Union Budget for 2026-27 on Sunday, against the backdrop of renewed geo-economic disruptions affecting India. With these pressures likely to spill into the coming financial year, the Budget offers a window into how the government plans to respond to a set of pressing challenges. In this five-part series, we use charts to examine the Budget's response to these pressures across 15 key concerns.This part looks at exports, textiles, and startups. Each topic has a pair of charts-one presenting the context the budget faced and the other showing what the Budget delivered.

Export revivalA defining theme of 2025-26 has been the disruptive impact of tariff-led trade policies of...