#HumansOfDeMonetisedIndia: Shantha, The Grandmother
My name is Shantha. I work as a domestic help. My granddaughter fell ill on Sunday. She had to be hospitalised. We had no cash at home. Banks were closed…
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Bank ‘Gandhigiri’, Cashless hara-kiri In Marathwada
The bank has “decided to use Gandhigiri to try and recover the loans [from you]. For this the bank has decided to do one of the following: 1) Put up a tent…
#HumansOfDeMonetisedIndia:Muneer, The Shoe Shop Owner
My name is Muneer. I am a shoe shop owner. After the note ban I hardly sell anything. Many shops have closed down. I don't know how long can I…
Cashless India: Inviting Disaster
Usually, Sunday evening is peak business time for local super markets. On last Sunday, 11 December evening, many customers in super bazaars and malls had come back empty handed as…
A Sketchbook Narrative Of The Great Indian Demonetisation Saga
An engrossing sketchbook of the The Great Indian Demonetisation saga. It asks, what's black mone, where it is hoarded, who will benefit by this whole demonetisation exercise, what will be…
#HumansOfDeMonetisedIndia: Josy, The Fish Vendor
My name is Josy. I'm a fish vendor. After the currency ban my sales have gone down drastically. I now sell only 1/4th of what I used to sell earlier,…
Modi’s War On Cash: The “Ice Nine” Solution
“This war has been in full swing in Europe and the U.S. for a long time. Governments plan to use negative interest rates,…
Demonetisation In India – What’s Not To Love?
Some people, mainly friends and family, have repeatedly wondered if there was a police state in India. I disagree, of course. Not a police state. No. Rather, it’s life under…
HumansOfDeMonetisedIndia: Sabu,The Auto Rickshaw Driver
My name is Sabu. I am an auto rickshaw driver from Perumbavoor, Kerala. Perumbavoor is the capital of migrant labourers in Kerala. A lot of migrant workers used to work…
I Am In Queue. I Am Not A Black Money Holder
There was a popular Bollywood movie a few years back titled “I am Khan. I am not a Terrorist”. The movie tries to depict the act of branding a name…
The News Demonetisation Devoured
One month after the demonetization decision, things have become more complicated and messy. The Aam Aadmi who was suppose to benefit from it still finds herself bemused in all walks…
#HumansOfDeMonetisedIndia: Vanaja, The Domestic Help
My name is Vanaja. I am a 46 year old domestic help. I have been working as a domestic help for the past 22 years. They say there's enough cash…
#HumansOfDemonetisedIndia: Stella, The Fish Vendor
#HumansOfDemonetisedIndia: My name is Stella. I'm a fish vendor at Shangumugham, Trivandrum, Kerala. I've been selling fish for the past 27 years, and never before have I gone back home…
Prime Minister: India needs A Social And Not A Digital Revolution
Prime Minister, in your speeches following the Demonetization announcement you have been talking about India moving to a cashless society. You are talking about India transforming into a state where…
Demonetisation And Gandhi
The entire demonetisation story has been parsed, discussed, analyzed and commented upon in detail, by its supporters and non-supporters alike. There is not pretty much left that can be contributed…
‘Mitron’ Fact Is Stranger Than Fiction
I discovered a new word: Mitron. It means, ‘A large group of unsuspecting people about to be hit by something they will take a long time to recover from.’ Ironically…
#HumansOfDemonetisedIndia: Nabakishore Pradhan, Farmer From Odisha
My name is Nabakishore Pradhan. I am a farmer from Odisha. My family is dependent on our agricultural produces and now is suffering due to demonetization. I cannot get loan…
Tomato At 50 paise/Kg! A Windfall or Disaster?
Political analyst Devinder Sharma tweeted that angry farmers in Raigarh district in Chhattisgarh are dumping tomato on highways. The reason? They are getting 50 rupees for a 100 kg batch…
Demonetisation: The Sultan Of Sophistry
It is early winter and a thick, grimy fog, black and white tinged with grey, hangs over Delhi much of the day. Morning visibility is bad, clears up a bit…
Demonetisation Creates An Exodus Of Migrant Workers From Kerala
Perumbavoor in Central Kerala is a mini India. Migrant workers from all over India come to this place looking for work. Workers from many states who get paid around Rs…
#HumansOfDemonetisedIndia: Ittiyavirah, The Petty Trader
My name is Ittiyavirah. I am a petty trader of spices. When the note ban was announced all the money I had with me from that day's trading became useless.…
Shock Doctrine At Work In India
In her classic book, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, Naomi Klein unmasks the practitioners of what she calls Disaster Capitalismfor profiting from human misery, and often precipitating…
#HumansOfDemonetisedIndia: Mallika, The Daily Wage Earner
#HumansOfDemonetisedIndia: My name is Mallika Lohar. I am a daily wage earner from Ruppur, Birbhum, West Bengal. Demonetisation has only been inconvenience for us. Our payments have been delayed, and…
A Risky Fatalism: ‘Temporary Hardships In Lieu Of A Better Tomorrow’
At a time when the whole of India is busy standing in ATM and Bank queues for few quantities of currency notes, South Koreans are out on the streets protesting…
Yes Prime Minister: You Are Right
Prime Minister, you said that in India even Beggars are going Cashless. You are absolutely true. I keep seeing the Whaatsapp message that you work for 18 hours a day,…
Drinking Away Demonetisation
Because the fertiliser shop in Tadimarri village of Anantapur district in Andhra Pradesh accepts old notes, even drought-hit groundnut farmers are queuing up to clear their credit – while jobless…
Mukesh Ambani, Jio Money And Demonetisation
Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani was all praise for Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 'demonetisation' drive at the launch of his e-payment wallet Jio Money, yesterday. Ironically it was also the…
Restore The Old 500 Rupee Notes Now To Avoid Chaos
The currency shortage in the country following the demonetisation of 500 and 100 rupee notes on 8 November has become so bad, there is real danger today of all law…
Demonetisation: An Anesthetized Anarchy
We, in India, are living in a state of anesthetized anarchy. We seem to have lost it in more ways than one. In the days of the sabretooth tiger mankind…
Demonetisation Has Wrecked Farmers
This would have been the time of year for brisk sales at the agricultural markets in Vidarbha. But farmers here are being forced to incur terrible losses – by accepting…
Demonetisation Shock Therapy: State Sponsored Financial Repression
"If You Can't Dazzle Them With Brilliance, Baffle Them With Bull." WC Fields “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that is…
Demonetisation – How To Fool A Nation And Get Away With It
After successfully convincing the naïve among the Indian electorate in 2014 that he would usher in “Acche Din”, the campaigner-in-chief is now in phase 2 of his grand project. As…
Demonetisation: India Speaks -Part VI – The Government Is Deaf!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pE0zoAoREdM&feature=youtu.be Video by Aabha Joshi, Neethu Saji and Kritika The patience of the common people is running out. Despite standing in queues outside banks, day after day, people are unable…
Modern Money Theory And The Demonetisation Catastrophe In India
For the life of me I cannot understand the reasoning behind demonetisation. I think the hidden underlying motivation is as that the only people India's politicians are willing to…
Cancellation Of Old Rupee Notes Will Not End Terrorism or Corruption!
Statement of the Central Committee of Communist Ghadar Party of India, 20 November, 2016 Since the midnight of 8-9 November, all 500 and 1000 rupee notes issued by the Reserve…
Is Going Cashless A Possibility?
Cash has undoubtedly proven a curse, irrespective of its color, for those who have been queuing up at the bank counters following the currency demonetisation. The unprecedented cash crunch has…
Modi’s Demonetisation Is A Well Thought-Out Move
During a conversation with a longtime acquaintance of mine about 25 years back, he made an unguarded remark that had made a deep negative impression on me. He started as…
Demonetisation And Terrorism
An argument which has been put forward in the recent ‘Demonetisation’ issue is its relationship with Terrorism. It has been pointed out that ‘funds’ either from outside or otherwise find…
Curry Mixed With Demonetisation And A Pinch Of Pesticide
A week before Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced demonetisation on November 8 , Varda Balayya, a 42-year-old farmer from Dharmaram village of Siddipet district in Telangana, was about to sell…
Happiness In The “Demonetized Nation”
Statutory Warning : - This is a fictitious retelling of a real life event. The arguments presented through various characters have taken place in real life only the circumstances &…
Demonetisation Sound Death Knell For Dalits, Adivasis
Even as the rest of the population continues to stagger and reel under the blow that demonetization has delivered to them, almost all Dalits and Adivasis in the country have been…
The Cashless Economy Of Chikalthana
In Chikalthana village, on the edge of and merging with Aurangabad town in Maharashtra, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s dream of a cashless economy seems to have been realised. Nobody has…
Demonetisation: India Speaks -Part V – They Don’t Spare Even Old Women
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaIKBcBbjbc&feature=youtu.be Video by Aabha Joshi, Neethu Saji and Kritika As the large population of the country is standing in long queues, an old woman of 75 years of age describes…
Demonetisation, Proverbial Last Nail In The Coffin Of Already Beleaguered Peasantry
Putting the cacophonous debate on the merits and demerits of demonetisation of Rs 500 and 1000 currency notes aside, there is no doubt over it having hit the farmers all…
Demonetisation—Strictly, The PM Didn’t Go By The Law
While much has been written and said about the demonetisation move by the government, the question of its legality has received scant attention. The issue however is not the desirability…
Demonetisation: India Speaks -Part IV
https://youtu.be/uj2edB3U5SA Video byAabha Joshi, NeethuSaji and Kritika Nine days has passed since Modi government has declared a ‘war’ against ‘black money’ by demonetizing Rs. 500 and Rs. 1000 currency notes,…
Demonetization And Narrative On Black Money
Never before has a decision of the Government shown negative effect on people so early as the current move to demonetize. A narrative has been built on its supposed benefits.…
Demonetisation And Bhakts
Demonetization is the new polarisation strategy deployed by the Modi Government, which has succeeded in killing many birds (and people) with a stone. This new policy is not only mindless…
Demonetisation: The Poor Don’t Matter Except To Buy Votes
Everybody knows that the dice are loaded. Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed. Everybody knows that the war is over. Everybody knows the good guys lost. Everybody knows the fight…
Demonetisation: Sad Plight Of Women In India
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CE1_HYhM1Gw The poor women of India who save money in currencies for a rainy day, or from irresponsible husbands have been hit hard by Narendra Modi's decision to withdraw Rs…
Does Demonetization Tackle Black Money? Public Meeting Today In Delhi
Public Meeting: November 18, 4-7pm Constitution Club (Speaker Hall), New Delhi At the stroke of midnight on November 8, 86% of the value of Indian currency which was in circulation…
Jagadish Chandra And 30 Activists Arrested Protesting Against Demonetisation In Bangalore
30 people from various left organisations, who organised a protest in Banglore against the demonetisation of the Rs. 500 and Rs. 1000 currency notes, have been arrested a few hours…
Death By Demonetisation
The abrupt demonetisation of 500 and 1000 rupee notes by the Narendra Modi regime is a drastic move that is staggering in its scale, ambition and repurcussions. The only other…
Black Money, Multiple Demonetisation Spinoffs, Disastrous Prospects
Now, falling in line with political expediency is being pushed as 'patriotism', so it appears from RSS spokesman Ram Madhav's statement 'patience of people queuing up outside ATMs and banks…
Demonetisation, A Tragedy For Women: India Speaks -Part III
This Episode is about the Koli fisherwomen of Mumbai who are bearing the brunt of this sudden demonetization. They are highly disillusioned by the government who comes begging to them…
Me, My Child & Black Money Myths & Facts of Demonetization & Black Money
There are many myths and facts, claims and allegations, in the air about - recently announced - demonetization scheme, under which the government of the day at the centre has…
Demonetisation Paralysed The Informal Economy: National Hawker Federation
The National Hawker Federation (NHF) expresses its strong disagreement with the ways in which the Government of India has addressed the evil of corruption in the country. While we do…
Demonetisation And The Common People
India saw a late evening announcement on the 8th of November, 2016; by Prime Minister Mr. Narendra Modi, declaring ‘five hundred rupee and thousand rupee currency notes presently in use…
Prominent Citizens Question Demonetisation
We, the undersigned, support all efforts to stop corruption, stamp out black money and counterfeit currency, and act against funding that helps creates unrest in the country be it through…
Demonetisation: India Speaks -Part II
A fruit seller accounts the result of demonetization on her, who is one among the 93% of the unorganized sector of the Indian working class. She tells how despite working…
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