That’s my place, Sir.
[Newly fashioned. I’m overwhelmed!]
There
In the long, weary queues
Waiting patiently
On aching, creaking feet
Moving inch by painful inch
For a blushing, pink piece of paper
[that can’t buy me a day’s vegetable].
I’ve (...)
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That’s My Place, Sir
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Demonetisation can only go so far. To go further, politics that backs black money must change
26 December 2016, by T J S GeorgeIMPRESSIONS
Not enough weeks have passed for us to say that the currency earthquake is over. Aftershocks are more severe than expected, with people waiting in day-long queues, and often failing to withdraw their own money. However, enough time (...) -
Modern Money Theory and the Demonetisation Catastrophe in India
26 December 2016by Anandi Sharan
For the life of me I cannot understand the reasoning behind demonetisation. I think the hidden underlying motivation is that the only people India’s politicians are willing to attack are the poorest. Hindutva fascism is the (...) -
Note ban is not demonetisation. And Modi was aware of the demon it unleashed
26 December 2016by Aurobindo Ghose
On November 8, 2016 at 8 pm, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in an apparently live televised address to a shocked and surprised nation, announced that currency notes of Rs 500 and Rs 1000 denominations would cease to be legal (...) -
Demonetisation: Decoding the Moves of a ‘pracharak’ Prime Minister
26 December 2016by Diptendra Raychaudhuri
Winter has set in. A winter at the time of demonetisation is expected to be severe, parti-cularly when the battle-lines have already been drawn and demarcated clearly.
Now, if it is a battle—ostensibly waged by the PM to (...) -
Demonetisation: Assault on the People
26 December 2016by Ram Puniyani
The month-old gamble of Narendra Modi (November 8, 2016) has put the whole country in an unprecedented chaos. The demonetisation of 86.4 per cent of the circulating currency in the form of Rs 500 and Rs 1000 notes has put into (...) -
India’s New Money Policy Hurts Poor the Most
26 December 2016by Joseph D’souza
On the day the US elected Donald Trump as its President, Prime Minister Modi of India announced a sudden midnight decision to demonetise 86 per cent of India’s cash economy. His intention was to attack India’s “black” (...) -
Cashless Time Will Turn
26 December 2016, by Suhas BorkerMake us landless Make us homeless Make us forestless Make us cashless Make us foodless Make us waterless Make us airless But you cannot make us faithless When the day of reckoning comes We shall make you powerless Please keep time Time is (...) -
Fresh Onslaught on People, Ved Bhasin on J&K
26 December 2016, by Humra QuraishiMUSINGS
I have just switched off the television. Couldn’t view any further, depressing and hitting news—reports of the hapless getting brutally lathi-charged when they were standing in long queues to withdraw their own money, or a young mother of (...) -
Is Pakistan dividing India?
26 December 2016, by Kuldip NayarHome Minister Rajnath Singh has said that Pakistan is again trying to divide India on the basis of religion. He conveniently forgets history. Pakistan was a consequence, not the cause. The society was divided and both Hindus and Muslims had (...)