At a time when the common man is suffering the ‘winter heat’ this year, standing in never-ending queues to exchange banned notes for new ones, and most often going back empty-handed, demoneytisation has changed nothing for the stinking rich people of the country.
A typical big fat Indian wedding took place in Indore, at a resort spread over several acres, on November 10. The daughter of the owner of a famous Hindi newspaper group was getting married like some royalty.
Just 48 hours before that the big currencies had been declared illegal. But this left the tycoon completely comfortable. But how?
Usually reliable sources coo that many bank managers themselves did ‘home delivery’ of the new currency notes.