Mitali Saran: Fiddling while Rome burns

The demonetisation rollout is a failure of imagination and empathy

Every person has a particular odour. It’s made up of bodily odour, personal products, clothes, food and health smells, and general hygiene. Good, bad, or indifferent, that smell is individual. But you can’t smell yourself—you’re too habituated to discern it. That’s the default olfactory universe you live in.  The same thing applies to how most of us view the world; our experience is our particular experiential ‘smell’. It’s easy to assume that your views make obvious sense, and everyone must share them. You have to bloody your nose ...

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Mitali Saran: Fiddling while Rome burns