This was before Internet became big in India btw.. Only very few people had mobile internet at the time and it was by no means a necessity.We middle class people were able to still somehow manage with debit cards and supermarkets, but the poor people were badly hit. All the fruits and vegetables these roadside sellers rotted out and went to waste. To demonstrate a “cruel irony” of this, Oliver showed footage of a Muslim man building one of the camps; he thinks every night, he told an interviewer, how he may end up inside it.The image is “nauseating”, said Oliver, and “the only glimmer of hope here is that for perhaps the first time in Modi’s whole career, his actions are creating a massive and sustained backlash”.The protests are ongoing, diverse and filled with people determined to protect India’s secularism and multicultural values.
100 around with them and with 86% of the currency gone from the market, 100s were in extremely short supply.
The episode sent John Oliver trending on Twitter, amassing thousands of tweets, with many urging people to watch and share the clip widely. 100 if you give someone Rs. 100 was the next smaller bill after the Rs.
Especially seeing all the blatant and clear injustice happening in India. My (and many others) mentality was "Fuck this shit, nobody could be worse than Congress".I remember thinking how much of a biased prick Oliver was in 2014 for criticizing Modi, but My (and many others) mentality was "Fuck this shit, nobody could be worse than Congress".Similar reasoning was behind the election of Bolsonaro in Brazil.
All rights reserved. So many foreigners went days hungry because they were unable to exchange their money to Indian cash. Modi: @LastWeekTonight with John Oliver …
So the fat cats responsible for most of the black money in the market got to keep a large part of it (whatever isn't already offshore), meanwhile poor Indians literally died waiting in lines to access money that was rightfully theirs.And let's not forget that Modi announced demonetisation the same night Trump was elected. With no source of income and with their stocks rotting and nobody buying it, they went legit broke AF. Then, a second bill will add undocumented citizens back on – but only if they’re not Muslim. But then Modi was like "Hold my cow urine". John Oliver at Variety's Salute to Service. Local milk sellers were unable to sell their milk products because people would only buy from supermarkets in card and so so much more.
It was a disaster, an absolute economic disaster.Unfortunately, media was sold out and nobody really reported much on this issue like it should have been. I wish more people around the world started reporting on this because Indian media won't and India is not too far from a Civil war the way this current government is heading.I personally know people from "well connected" families who later bragged about knowing about demonetisation before it was implemented. 10,000, we were forced by our house owners to stand in line for 5 days, collect the money and pay them with it.These were just some of the problems that we faced. They didn't clap for long and they weren't very loud, but they were there.Absolutely loved this video.
John Oliver on Modi: ‘His charisma is such that he somehow evades public anger sticking to him, which is a very dangerous superpower, especially when …
But the most drastic move yet is his citizenship proposal, which would “strip millions of Muslims of citizenship, and they did it in a diabolically clever two-step way”, said Oliver. Nobody had any money and so many small businesses were closed that it's no joke.Then came the rent day. Essentially everything came down to a halt. Now comes another blunder. 92% Upvoted. Add pseudo-nationalism, religious hatred against Muslims, Christians and some decades old idealogy and they are literally an ISIS in making. Modi took India and Pakistan to the brink of war, like shit was about to go down. Nobody carries around 19 notes of Rs. This meant we had to pay them money in cash. All the food these small eateries served went to waste.Rs. He has an inspirational story of rising from poor tea salesman to province leader. You know back in 2013-14 I was basically a BJP supporter, mainly because there were far too many crimes and corruption during Congress' rule.
I’m okay with the overcrowded busses and shitty infrastructure but the prospect of religious persecution and war is where I draw the lineExactly, but I think you need a TV series documentary at least to show the havoc he has unleashedI know this is off topic, but the podcast trump inc has some very interesting episodes about trump's kids shady business dealings in India.I find these events in India really disheartening. wtf I thought it was only for Disney's streaming service?This video is NOT AVAILABLE now. 2000 notes for a Rs.
“That is basically just writing ‘We hate Muslims’ on a dog and then throwing that dog at the nearest Muslim.”Modi’s party has also edited religious pluralism out of history textbooks, and introduced primary school textbooks teaching Indian supremacy.