Picture cash. Wads of it. In mountains of crumpled notes and pristine notes. Rupee notes, in 500 and 1,000 denominations. Overflowing from wallets, pockets, purses … maybe mattresses.
Poof.
Gone. Gone like the wind. Kind of. Nigh eight months on, how has the grand demonetization experiment worked? Harken back to November, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi stated that those notes — a staggering majority of all tangible paper currency in circulation, at 86 percent — would be, literally, taken out of legal tender. Immediately.