RAHUL MAIRA
India, the biggest democracy in the world, deemed their legal tender of 500 and 1,000 currency bills invalid on the evening of Nov. 8, 2016 in a surprise announcement. This move came with the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi cracking down on the circulation of black money that nourished the shadow economy of India. The government aimed at acting as Robin Hood by seizing the illicit gains of the wealthy and distributing them among the poor. Is this how the story unveils itself or is there a flipside to the Robin Hood story?