Demonitization: Scenes from a Chaos

Dear Mr. PM,

We do laud and support your fight against black money and your act of demonitizing the 500 and 1000 currency a masterstroke in the fight against terrorism. Sadly the implementation leaves a lot to be desired for. Everywhere you see its a scene of chaos and flaring tempers and weary souls. The bank official all seem very ill prepared for this movie, and it's not even their fault, they are doing the best they can given the very little time they have been given to prepare.  Every you look you see serpentine queues of anxious people. A mix of salaried employees and daily wage workers and housewives, standing there clutching their bags, money, waiting their turn to exchange, deposit or withdraw, waiting for direction, waiting for some sort of hope to end this ordeal. What you don't see in the line are industrialists, socialites, celebrities, the hoity-toity, the politicians and their cronies, the upper echelon of society. All you see are people who want to save their money. The air is tinged with panic that the money may run out and even a little whisper can set them off. Sadly instead of staying round to supervise the process, our leaders have gone incognito, giving sound bites and quotes or out on the next foreign trip. Though you may argue that this is required to root out evil of black money  and this just a phase that we need to go through, for a short while in order to be safe. Trust me buddy I agree with every word, but sadly as noble as the cause may be it has left me feeling helpless and vulnerable. Trust me people can take advantage of such situations. Even though it may be short period, this time may seem like an endless nightmare. What happens in an emergency, I am not going to rush to a government hospital cause I know they are ill-prepared or not even maintained properly.

About the currency note, what's with the pink? Well I don't have a pink kink in my think. But the money feels more like monopoly money. There's nothing that speaks of volume of the country that we are. It all seems very haphazardly put together. And the government has also included one of their schemes on the notes. And people don't give you change for 100 what chances are they'll give you change for 2000.

I really hope that things get better as the days go by and the objectives of this exercise is met. Looking forward to seeing the 500 rupee notes.