Page 26 - Letters
Letters: Wanted: A mediator
The unprecedented corporate battle has reached a gigantic proportion that really could compromise the interests of various stakeholders
Letters: Half-baked ideas
Forced changes are bound cause pain and hardships to the common man, as it is witnessed during the course of current demonetisation
Letters: Focus on rail safety
The train accident near Kanpur on Sunday morning is one of India's worst train disasters in recent times
Letters: Disruption and disdain
Let us look at the state of preparation as on November 8 when the earth-shaking announcement was made
Letters: Opposition failure
Banerjee's dubious political past, as highlighted by the author, makes it difficult for her to be able to lead the political fraternity in the Opposition camp on the controversial issue of demonetisation
Letters: Toward transparency
The massive effort at getting the poor to open bank accounts and demonetisation are logical initial steps in this direction
Letters: Credulous people
India being a country of an aspiring but credulous population, we give rise to demagogues who take everyone for a ride with their populist narratives
Letters: Strange move
With cashless modes of payment yet to take root in the country and purchasing power of rupee declining
Letters : Political corruption
If the PM really means business then he should set an example by urgently asking the chief of his own party (BJP) to come clean on the issue of the political corruption of this nature
Letters: Execution problem
In its zeal to keep the scheme of demonetisation of high value currency notes the government failed to visualise the operational nighmare
Letters: Devil in the detail
The lead editorial Standard deviations (Business Standard, November 16) raises an extremely valid concern regarding lack of standardisation in India
Letters: On a fast track
This grim situation may also be somewhat attributed to some immediate panicky and knee-jerk reaction of the common man
Letters: PM was sincere
The government is doing all that is feasible to ameliorate the hardship of the people
Letters: Toward cashless system
With reference to Ajay Shah's "A monetary economics view of the demonetisation", the article, with a deft theoretical approach, almost confuses the reader to think that money is cash and a reduced amount of it in circulation is, by itself, something bad for the economy
Letters: Black money hunt
A K Bhattacharya questions the government's decision to grant just three to six days for allowing the use of old high-denomination notes for public utility and emergency services, and seeks a one-month period for the same
Letters: Out of control
"Know your customer" has become "knife your customer". I seek the indulgence of readers for a brief exposition of my treatment at the hands of a large, global, commercial bank
Letters: Hush-hush
The Supreme Court should constitute a special investigation team to probe the angle of disproportionate conversions of high denomination notes into low-denomination ones
Letters: Serendipity at its best
Economics is mostly about people making choices under given conditions
Letters: Show some sensitivity
Private hospitals and pharmacies should be mandated to accept demoneitised notes till November 30 rather than asking the Archaeological Survey of India to accept these currencies
Letters:Practical aspects ignored
With reference to Archis Mohan's report, "Modi phases out Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes" (Nov 9), that the Prime Minister himself announced the "demonetisation"
