On the evening of 8 November when Prime Minister Narendra Modi appeared on television to address the nation, many, including me, thought it would just be a video version of his “Mann Ki Baat” address on the radio. Not in my wildest dreams had I imagined that Modi was about to announce a decision that would not only wreak havoc on the country’s economy but also claim scores of innocent lives as ‘sacrifice’.
When Modi announced the decision to demonetise high value currency notes,