A record budget. The fallout of a distant war. A banking crisis. An imminent reckoning with the IMF. These are the notes Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury must play, all at once, in his first budget as finance minister -- a job he has held for less than four months. Every June, Bangladesh presents a budget. The outlay almost always gets bigger, the deficit rarely closes, and the annual ritual goes on. Arithmetically, this June is no different. But politically, it feels different.