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<h2><a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/articles/striking-the-right-notes-on-demon-anniversary">Striking the right notes on 'demon' anniversary</a></h2><p>A year after demonetisation hit them, small eating places in the Karnataka countryside still bear the scars<br/></p><h5>Nov. 6, 2017 | <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/authors/p-sainath">P. Sainath</a></h5><h5><p></p></h5><p></p><h5><p></p></h5>

Striking the right notes on ‘demon’ anniversary

<h2><a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/articles/the-ghost-of-demonetisation">The ghost of demonetisation</a></h2><p>In rural Marathwada, where
 the agrarian trade chain is cash-based, farmers are still reeling from 
the effects of the November 2016 demonetisation – with bounced cheques, 
poor access to banks, and falling crop prices</p><h5>Sept. 15, 2017 | <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/authors/parth-mn">Parth M.N.</a></h5>

The ghost of demonetisation

<h2><a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/articles/a-bad-tomato-gamble-with-demonetisation-as-the-dice">A bad tomato gamble with demonetisation as the dice</a></h2><p>Vegetable
 farmers in Vidarbha had pinned a lot of hope on bumper tomato yields 
this winter. But a price crash coupled with the post-November 8 
notebandi has left them with a sour aftertaste </p><h5> Jan. 13, 2017 | <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/authors/jaideep-hardikar">Jaideep Hardikar</a></h5><p></p>

A bad tomato gamble with demonetisation as the dice

<h2><a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/articles/notebandi-takes-the-sauce-out-of-nashiks-tomatoes/">Notebandi takes the sauce out of Nashik’s tomatoes</a></h2><p>Farmers
 in Maharashtra’s Nashik district – where one in every four tomatoes in 
India comes from – are destroying standing crops on a scale never seen 
before, following persistent rock-bottom prices since the November 8 
demonetisation</p><h5>Jan. 4, 2017 | Aniket Aga &amp; <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/authors/chitrangada-choudhury/">Chitrangada Choudhury</a></h5><h5></h5><p></p>

Notebandi takes the sauce out of Nashik’s tomatoes

<h2><a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/articles/staying-half-hungry-due-to-the-demonetisation-drought/">Staying half-hungry due to the demonetisation ‘drought’</a></h2><p>When Dalit migrants of Bucharla in Andhra returned home in November for an annual festival, there was no work on farms hit by the cash scarcity on top of poor yields – forcing them to eat less during a festive time<br/></p><h5>Dec. 26, 2016 | <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/authors/rahul-m/">Rahul M.</a></h5>

Staying half-hungry due to the demonetisation ‘drought’

<h2><a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/articles/bpl-xi-theyre-mobile-their-money-isnt/">BPL XI: they're mobile, their money isn't</a></h2><p>With the note-ban 
crippling money orders, migrant workers in Maharashtra are unable to 
send cash home to hungry families. In Adul, Aurangabad, labourers from 
five states are struggling with a bank system they don't understand and 
which doesn’t work for them</p><h5>Dec. 19, 2016 | <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/authors/p-sainath/">P. Sainath</a></h5>

BPL XI: they're mobile, their money isn't

<h2><a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/articles/note-ban-sends-beedi-units-up-in-smoke/">Note ban sends beedi units up in smoke</a></h2><p>Post demonetisation, 
most of the major beedi units have shut down in Jangipur, West Bengal, 
crippled by the cash shortage – leaving thousands of home-based 
beedi-rollers, mostly women, with no income</p><h5>Dec. 17, 2016 | <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/authors/arunava-patra/">Arunava Patra</a></h5>

Note ban sends beedi units up in smoke

<h2><a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/articles/bank-gandhigiri-cashless-hara-kiri-in-marathwada/">Bank 'Gandhigiri', cashless hara-kiri in Marathwada</a></h2>As 
demonetisation woes deepen, an Osmanabad bank does little to recover Rs.
 352 crores owed by two sugar factories, but threatens 20,000 farmers 
who owe it Rs. 180 crores with public humiliation<h5>Dec. 9, 2016 | <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/authors/p-sainath/">P. Sainath</a></h5>

Bank 'Gandhigiri', cashless hara-kiri in Marathwada

<h3><a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/articles/nepali-rupees-to-the-rescue/">Nepali rupees to the rescue</a></h3><p>In scenic Ogla and at the annual 
Jauljibi fair in Uttarakhand, close to the India-Nepal border, traders 
have been hit hard by demonetisation – while in Dharchula, the last town
 on the border, people are beating the cash crunch by using Nepali 
currency<br/></p><h5>Dec. 6, 2016 | <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/authors/arpita-chakrabarty/">Arpita Chakrabarty</a></h5>

Nepali rupees to the rescue

<h2><a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/articles/drinking-away-demonetisation/">Drinking away demonetisation</a></h2><p>Because the fertiliser shop in 
Tadimarri village of Anantapur district in Andhra Pradesh accepts old 
notes, even drought-hit groundnut farmers are queuing up to clear their 
credit – while jobless agricultural labourers are finding that the 
easiest way to change their few old notes is by buying alcohol at the 
local liquor stores</p><h5>Dec. 1, 2016  | <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/authors/rahul-m/">Rahul M.</a></h5>

Drinking away demonetisation

<h2><a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/articles/demonetisation-has-wrecked-farmers/">‘Demonetisation has wrecked farmers’</a></h2><p>This would have been the
 time of year for brisk sales at the agricultural markets in Vidarbha. 
But farmers here are being forced to incur terrible losses – by 
accepting lower prices, losing their perishable produce, or due to a 
fear of depositing cash payments in old notes in banks where they owe 
loan repayments<br/></p><h5>Nov. 26, 2016 | <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/authors/jaideep-hardikar">Jaideep Hardikar</a></h5><h5></h5>

‘Demonetisation has wrecked farmers’

<h2><a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/articles/curry-mixed-with-demonetisation-and-a-pinch-of-pesticide/">Curry mixed with demonetisation and a pinch of pesticide</a></h2><p>When
 the government outlawed 86 per cent of India’s currency, burying his 
hope of selling land to pay off growing debts, Varda Balayya of 
Dharmaram village in Telangana killed himself and tried to poison his 
entire family by mixing pesticide in their chicken curry</p><h5>Nov. 22, 2016 | <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/authors/rahul-m/">Rahul M.</a></h5>

Curry mixed with demonetisation and a pinch of pesticide

<h2><a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/articles/the-cashless-economy-of-chikalthana/">The cashless economy of Chikalthana</a></h2><p>The government’s 
demonestisation has devastated farmers, landless labourers, pensioners, 
petty traders and many others across Maharashtra</p><h5>Nov. 16, 2016 | <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/authors/p-sainath/">P Sainath</a></h5><p></p>

The cashless economy of Chikalthana

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