-The Hindu To prevent further damage to the economy and to relieve distress, Demonetisation should be revoked immediately Without adequate preparation or thought, the monetary authorities and the government have taken a drastic step declaring as worthless over 86 per cent by value of the currency notes in circulation with the public. A prior large increase of lower denomination notes should have been ensured through banks and ATMs, so that overall money...

-The Indian Express Farmers are facing the heat from both collapse of demand and inability to purchase inputs post-Demonetisation. Junnar (Maharashtra): The last one week and more has brought nothing but bad news for Vasant Pimpale. This farmer from Pargaon Tarfe Ale, a village in Pune district’s Junnar taluka, has already lost 11 tonnes of green chilli grown on eight out of his 15-acres holding. The loss hasn’t been courtesy drought, flood...

-The Indian Express Demonetisation politics unfolds as a vast morality play. Its imagination unleashes the state on you, in the name of protecting your own virtue. The so-called Demonetisation is a watershed event for India. It signifies the arrival of a new kind of politics that will redefine the relationship between citizen and state. The scale of this event is so unprecedented that we are struggling to see where all the chips...

-TheWire.in Demonetisation will only affect those who conduct transactions in cash, are not a part of the formal banking system or have not converted their cash into assets. The government’s Demonetisation of Rs 500 and Rs 1000 notes is a contentious issue, but is understandable. Such schemes may have not worked in the past, but a political commitment had to be honoured. The question is not whether the government is right for...

-The Hindu Business Line Scarcity of ?100 notes hits kharif harvesting; decline in demand worsens situation Hyderabad: Ram Singh (name changed), a 45-year-old farmer near Ranjim, a tehsil in Chhattisgarh, stood impatiently in the long queue, waiting for his turn to swap a bunch of old notes for new. “I don’t want the new notes. I’m desperately looking for ?100 notes that I need to pay to the labourers that I have...