All the numbers and stats you needed on demonetisation Mumbai, Nov 30: Opinions are like black money, everybody has some. So in journalism, we prefer solid statistics. which are difficult to refute, but actually easy to make up. There is a certainty to numbers that words can’t match. Another great thing about stats is that the common public, most of… Read more →
The demonetisation drive, which the government has undertaken to abolish black money by the common sense logic of abolishing money, has brought a lot of focus on mobile wallets. In these times of currency crunch, mobile wallets are a godsend as they offer the harried citizens a viable choice to blame somebody else other than just the government. The point… Read more →
*Urjit Patel and Mukesh Ambani are twins *Trump to outsource US economy management to Modi Chennai, Nov 23: Regular mainstream media outlets and WhatsApp forwards are great sources of news that are totally unreliable. But WhatsApp forwards are — in ways that mainstream media can never be — more fun. And in the aftermath of the demonetisation, WhatsApp forwards have… Read more →
Today we will talk about the one area that probably has been hit the hardest by demonetisation: Tipping. I got thinking about this after a small incident at a restaurant where I was for an evening bite early this week. The bill was for Rs.197 and, as it happened, I had only a few 100 rupee notes with me. I… Read more →
Pages from the diary of Crank’s News reporter Chennai, Nov 16: The night of Nov 8 On the TV Prime Minister Narendra Modi is holding forth. Wife and I sit watching the whole thing with nary an emotion. We are speechless at what we hear. That is because we don’t understand Hindi. But the news scroll below, tells the story:… Read more →
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