The iconic letterbox has been built up, so to speak, to tell us, “ In summer 2018, after a disagreement with the then UK prime minister, a backbencher MP who’d resigned from his post as Foreign Secretary - a man who just a year later would son become UK prime minister himself - wrote an article which he published in the Evening Standard where he stated that though he personally declared himself not intolerant enough to believe Muslim women who wore full face veil burqas should be banned from wearing what their religion often required of them, all the same he thought it ridiculous of Muslim women to choose to go around looking like letterboxes. Then you see how, she is using humour to speak of marginalisation, exclusion, racism, hyper-nationalism, of borders. Why so much discussion over a letterbox, even about the word Letterbox, you wonder. The ones who, in fact, had ‘black’ money.
A grand aim, in this case, the unearthing of ‘black money’, towards which we were all to bear certain inconveniences - for some, certain ruin - which was not achieved. Not only was it unfair to the weakest, but it did not achieve what it said it set out to. Sabziwallahs, farmers, women workers, workers in unorganized labour, all vulnerable sections of the population, were ruined. In an 8 pm national telecast on November 8, 2016, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that the notes of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 denomination would no longer be valid from midnight, four hours after the surprise telecast. It would seem that the English-reading middle class may not have been affected by demonetisation, but the way it was sprung upon us, was shocking. However, for a more public reason, anyway, we Indians were not very much in the mood of buying books in the month Autumn came out.
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