Notebandi's impacts on rural Indians: reportage by the People's Archive of Rural India
BPL XI: they're mobile, their money isn't by P.
Sainath
Nobody has any cash. Not the banks,
nor the ATMs and certainly not the people queuing up in and around them in
despair. Even the policemen sitting in the vans outside bank branches haven’t
any. ~ P. Sainath
Drinking away demonetisation by Rahul M
Most agricultural labourers can’t
afford to go to the banks and stand in the long queues instead of looking for
work. Many don’t even have bank accounts. So those who don’t get work for the
day take their few old Rs. 500 and 1000 notes to a familiar place that still
accepts these denominations: the local liquor store.
Bank 'gandhigiri', cashless hara-kiri in Marathwada by
P. Sainath
According to doctors working in hospitals providing low-cost treatment, the number of patients has reduced by about 30% since demonetisation.
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Nation-wide public tragedy unreported in India's mainstream media - click to see glimpses of ordinary Indians' reactions to note-ban crisis and please circulate - Scroll down the contents of the link above for clips of mass unrest in Indian society from shopkeepers & artisans to workers & peasants. Information about this assault on the lives of millions is being withheld by the mass media
CRPF Man who survived 5 Bullets shoots himself after failing to withdraw cash from Bank
CRPF Man who survived 5 Bullets shoots himself after failing to withdraw cash from Bank