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Ranjona Banerji: The hypocrisy of demonetisation

<p>It is ironic to support the move against black money while engaging in corruption &mdash; it would&rsquo;ve been entertaining if it wasn&rsquo;t disappointing</p>

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A woman uses a prepaid smart card at a dairy store at Bhatt village in Ahmedabad. Pic/AFP
A woman uses a prepaid smart card at a dairy store at Bhatt village in Ahmedabad. Pic/AFP

A month into the demonetisation of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and the ‘minor’ inconveniences continue. People are still dying around the country, either while waiting in queues to withdraw their own money or due to lack of treatment because some hospitals did not accept the old notes. Clearly, they were not yet ‘digitised’.

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