Budget 2022: No Indian Should be Left Behind
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Budget 2022: No Indian Should be Left Behind

The Quint  

His name is Ordinary Indian. On the eighth day of that month, she took a wad of crisp 1000-rupee notes from the Godrej safe at home to buy jewels for her handsome daughter-in-law. Shell-shocked, Oye and his mother rushed to the market, but the equally stunned jeweller had simply shut shop, refusing to honour any transaction. Oye’s mother wowed she would never deal with these “petty shopkeepers” again. Oye just sat glumly in front of his television set, oblivious to angry economists ranting about “the death” … oh yes, it was the death of something called “India’s informal economy”.

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